#language introduction

Chulym

Ӧс тили

Some information about the Chulym language:

It’s critically endangered, meaning there are very few native speakers left, who are also elderly, and young people are not picking up the language. In writing, Chulym seems to use Cyrillic and or IPA and Latin script. You can read more about the Chulym language and people on Wikipedia, here and here; and on Living Tongues here.

Example Words & Phrases ↓

Provided by Living Tongues at this link, Cyrillic transliteration by me (which may be inaccurate)

bonjour! je m’appelle katie, enchanté.

hei! jeg er katie, hyggelig.

Привет! Я кати.

أَهْلًا وَسَهْلً. انا خاتي، تشرفت بلقائك .

안녕하세요!

hallo. ich bin katie.

i’ve been studying languages since i was nine.

i learned a bit of asl, i am not fluent at all but know about fifty or so signs.

i learned japanese when i was ten, and have been working on it since.

i learned a bit of german when i was twelve, but i’m going to start practicing again.

i learned french and arabic in school starting at fifteen. a lot of my arabic has escaped me sadly. but i know most of my french still.

i began learning norwegian, russian, and korean when i was nineteen.