#tofa

Tofa (тоъфа дыл)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 93

Spoken in: Russia

Script: Cyrillic, 41 letters

Grammatical cases: 7

Linguistic typology: agglutinative, SOV

Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Siberian Turkic, South Siberian, Sayan Turkic

Number of dialects: 0

History

1988 - the Cyrillic alphabet is adopted

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the script: а б в г ғ д е ә ё ж з и i й к қ л м н ң о ө п р с т у ү ф х һ ц ч ҷ ш щ ъ ы ь э ю я.

One of Tofa’s characteristics is vowel harmony. Each vowel has long and pharyngeal variants. Consonants can be strong or weak; the latter can also be voiced or unvoiced.

Grammar

Nouns have two numbers (singular and plural) and seven cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, local-temporal, ablative, private, and prolative). They are also inflected for possessiveness and definiteness.

Personal pronouns have singular, dual, and plural forms, as well as inclusive and exclusive ones.

Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood, aspect, person, and number. One of its moods expresses warning or fear.

Dialects

There is a strong difference in the amount I know about Nota’s design and Tofa’s design....