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Tofa, also known as Tofalar or Karagas, is one of the Turkic languages spoken in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast by the Tofalars. It is a moribund language; in 2010 only 93 people were reported to speak it.〔 Tofa is most-closely related to the Tuvan language〔Lars Johanson (1998) "The History of Turkic". In Lars Johanson & Éva Ágnes Csató (eds) ''The Turkic Languages''. London, New York: Routledge, 81-125. (Classification of Turkic languages at Turkiclanguages.com )〕 and forms a dialect continuum with it. Tuha, and Tsengel Tuvan may be dialects of either Tuvan or Tofa. Tofa shares a number of innovations with these languages, including the change *d > z (as in *''adaq'' > ''azak'' "foot") and the development of low tones on historically short vowels (as in *''et'' > ''èt'' "meat, flesh"). ==Writing system== Tofa, although not often written, employs a Cyrillic alphabet: Tofa has letters that are not present in the Russian alphabet: Ғғ , Әә , Ii , Ққ , Ңң , Өө , Үү , Һһ , and (unicode:Ҷҷ) . Additionally, the letter ъ is sometimes used after a vowel to mark low tone, as in эът "meat". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tofa language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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