Turkic · ISO 639-3 tyv
Tuvinian Language Тыва дыл
Tuvinian is a Turkic language spoken by about 297,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts.
Where Tuvinian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Tuvinian
Language family
- Turkic
- Common Turkic
- South Siberian Turkic
- Sayan-Yenisei Turkic
- Sayan
- Tuvinian
Writing system
Cyrillic and Latin scripts
About the Tuvinian language
Tuvinian (Тыва дыл) is spoken by about 297,000 people, which makes it the 514th most spoken language in the world — just behind Moksha (300,000) and ahead of Ndzwani Comorian (290,000). It belongs to the Turkic language family and, more precisely, to the Sayan group within the South Siberian Turkic branch.
Where is Tuvinian spoken?
Tuvinian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (267,559).
Tuvinian is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Tuvinian is written in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 tyv.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.