Soyot
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Notes
- Soyot is reported to be very similar to Dukhan, which is spoken directly across the border in Mongolia.
- Most people in the Soyot ethnic group have switched to using Buryat and/or Russian as their primary languages.
- In an effort to preserve the language, a Cyrillic-based writing system was developed in 2001.
Writing System with Transcription
| Аа (a) | Бб (b) | Вв (v) | Ғғ (ɣ) | Дд (d) | Јј (dʼ) | Ее (e, ye) | Ёё (yo) |
| Жж (ž) | Зз (z) | Ии (i) | Іі (ĭ)* | Йй (y) | Кк (k) | Ққ (q) | Һһ (h) |
| Лл (l) | Мм (m) | Нн (n) | Ҥҥ (ŋ) | Оо (o) | Өө (ö) | Пп (p) | Рр (r) |
| Сс (s) | Тт (t) | Уу (u) | Үү (ü) | Фф (f) | Хх (x) | Цц (ts) | Чч (č) |
| Ҷҷ (ǰ) | Шш (š) | Щщ (šč) | Ъъ† | Ыы (ï) | Ьь | Ээ (e) | Әә (ä) |
| Юю (yu) | Яя (ya) | ||||||
| *Described as a palatal counterpart to ï. Unclear if this is a reduced vowel or a non-harmonic high back vowel. | |||||||
| †Indicates low tone in native words; this is transcribed with a grave accent, e.g. à, ö̀ | Several letters, including those without transcriptions noted, are found only in Russian loanwords. | ||||||
References
Rassadin, Valentin Ivanovič, and Béla Kempf. 2010. “Soyotica”. Studia Uralo-Altaica 48, 1-229. https://ojs.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/stualtaica/article/view/13654.
Рассадин, В. И. 2003. Сойотско-Бурятско-Русский Словарь. Улан-Удэ: Изд-во ОАО “Республиканская Типография”.
Рассадин, В. И. 2006. Словарь Сойотско-Русский. Санкт-Петербург: Издательство "Дрофа".
