Siberian Tatar () is a

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, primarily in the oblasts of

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and

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Oblasts, but also in Sverdlovsk and

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Oblasts. According to

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, due to its particular characteristics, Siberian Tatar can be considered as a bridge to

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Dialects

Siberian Tatar consists of three dialects: Tobol-Irtysh, Baraba or Tsanakül and Tom or Umar-Tom. According to D. G. Tumasheva, the Baraba dialect is grammatically closest to the southern dialect of Altai, Kyrgyz and has significant grammatical similarities with Chulym, Khakas, Shor, and Tuvan. The Tomsk dialect is, in her opinion, even closer to Altai and similar languages. The Tevriz sub-dialect of the Tobol-Irtysh dialect shares significant elements with the

, namely with Altai, Khakas and Shor. Although Gabdulkhay Akhatov was a Volga Tatar, he immersed into studying of the phonetic peculiarities of Siberian Tatar language of the indigenous population of Siberia, the Siberian Tatars. In his work "The Dialect of the West Siberian Tatars" (1963) Akhatov wrote about Tobol-Irtysh Siberian Tatars, a western group of Siberian Tatars, who are indigenous to the

and

Oblasts. In his work "Dialect of the West Siberian Tatars" (1963) Gabdulkhay Akhatov wrote about a territorial resettlement of the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars

and

areas. Subjecting a comprehensive integrated analysis of the phonetic system, the lexical composition and grammatical structure, the scientist concluded that the language of the Siberian Tatars is a separate language, it is divided into three dialects and it is one of the most ancient Turkic languages. Gabdulkhay Akhatov. The Dialect of the West Siberian Tatars. Ufa, 1963, 195 p. Professor G. Akhatov named Siberian Tatar dialects of Tyumen and Omsk Oblasts dialects of the West Siberian Tatars, while dialects of Baraba and Tom Tatars he named dialects of the East Siberian Tatars. Some works further differentiate sub-dialects of three aforementioned dialects, breaking them down as follows: * Tobol-Irtysh dialect ** Tyumen sub-dialect ( Tyumensky District, Yalutorovsky District, and Nizhnetavdinsky District of Tyumen Oblast) ** Tobol sub-dialect ( Tobolsky District, Vagaysky District,

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of Tyumen Oblast) *** Eastern Tobol (Tokuz-Uvat) variety (Vagaysky District) ** Zabolotny sub-dialect (Tobolsky District and Nizhnetavdinsky District of Tyumen Oblast) ** Tevriz (Kurdak, Kurtak) sub-dialect ( Tevrizsky District, Ust-Ishimsky District, Znamensky District of Omsk Oblast, plus some settlements in Tyumen Oblast's Vagaysky District) ** Tara sub-dialect (

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, Bolsherechensky District, Kolosovsky District of Omsk Oblast) * Baraba dialect (spoken throughout the Baraba steppe) * Tom dialect ** Eushtino-Chatsk ( Tomsky District, Tomsk Oblast) *** Orsk Chat sub-dialect ( Kolyvansky District, Novosibirsk Oblast) ** Kalmak ( Yurginsky District, Kemerovo Oblast) Baraba and Tom dialects of Siberian Tatar language belong to Kyrgyz–Kipchak subdivision of Turkic languages, together with Kyrgyz, Southern Altai, Teleut, and Telengit. Tobol-Irtysh dialect belongs to Kipchak–Nogai subdivision of Turkic languages, which also includes Nogai, Karagash, steppe dialect of Crimean Tatar, Kazakh, Karakalpak, and Kipchak dialects of Uzbek.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

can be an allophone of .

Alphabet

Siberian Tatar alphabet and IPA pronunciation:

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