The Tobol-Irtysh dialect is a Turkic dialect group spoken in

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and

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, and gets its name from the

Tobol The Tobol (, ) is a river in Western Siberia (in Kazakhstan and Russia) and the main (left) tributary of the Irtysh. Its length is , and the area of its drainage basin is . History The Tobol River was one of the four important rivers of the S ...

and

Irtysh The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob (river), Ob and is also the longest tributary in the world. The river's source lies in the Altai Mountains, Mongolian Altai in Dzungaria (the northern p ...

rivers.

Classification

It is generally classed among the dialects of the Tatars of Siberia, of which some also speak

Baraba The Baraba Tatars ( Siberian Tatar: параба, бараба, барама, бараба татарлар) are a sub-group of Siberian Tatars and the indigenous people of the Ob-Irtysh interfluve. After a strenuous resistance to Russian conq ...

. Johanson groups these dialects under the name of Western Siberian Tatar.

Dialects

According to Tumasheva, Tobol-Irtysh Tatar has 5 dialects: * Tyumen - Tyumensky, Yalutorovsky, Nizhnetavdinsky, Isetsky, Zavodoukovsky, Yarkovsky raion of Tyumen Oblast * Tobol with Tokuz-Uvat (Eastern Tobol) - Tyumensky (with former Baikalovsky), Vagaisky (with former Dubrovinsky), Yarkovsky raion of Tyumen Oblast * Zabolotny - Tobolsky, Uvatsky raion of Tyumen Oblast * Tevriz (Kurdak, Kurtak) - Tevrizsky, Ust-Ishimsky, Znamensky raion of Omsk Oblast * Tara - Tarsky, Bolsherechensky, Kolosovsky raion of Omsk Oblast The Tevriz dialect has elements of Southern Altai,

Khakas The Khakas are a Turkic indigenous people of Siberia, who live in the republic of Khakassia, Russia. They speak the Khakas language. The Khakhassian people are direct descendants of various ancient cultures that have inhabited southern Siberia ...

and Shor.

Orthography

In 2000, a primer of Tobol-Irtysh Tatar was published. Its orthography includes the letters of the

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, plus the extra letters Ә ә, Ғ ғ, Ҡ ҡ, Ң ң, Ө ө, and Ү ү.

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