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Chat Tatars
The Chat Tatars (, ) are one of the three subgroups of Tom Tatars, Tom Tatar group of Siberian Tatars. Their traditional areas of settlement are on the rivers Ob River, Ob, Chik, Uen', and Chaus in Kozhevnikovsky District, Tomsk Oblast, and in Kolyvansky District, Kolyvansky and Moshkovsky District, Moshkovsky districts, Novosibirsk Oblast since the 8th century, later also on the territory of modern Shegarsky District, Shegarsky, Tomsky District, Tomsky, Kochenyovsky District, Kochenyovsky, Bolotninsky District, Bolotninsky, Novosibirsky District, Novosibirsky, Toguchinsky District, Toguchinsky, Iskitimsky District, Iskitimsky, Ordynsky District, Ordynsky districts, and in the cities of Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Berdsk. They live, among others, in the villages of Chernaya Rechka and Takhtamyshevo. Chat Tatars are divided into two sub-groups: Tom (Tomsk Oblast) and Ob (Novosibirsk Oblast). The Chats (along with other related groups of Siberian Tatars) are Sunni Muslims. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siberian Tatar Language
Siberian Tatar () is a Turkic language spoken by about 140,000 people in Western Siberia, Russia, primarily in the oblasts of Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo Oblasts, but also in Sverdlovsk and Kurgan Oblasts. According to Marcel Erdal, due to its particular characteristics, Siberian Tatar can be considered as a bridge to Siberian Turkic languages. 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 Siberian Turkic languages, namely with Altai, Khakas and Shor. Although Gabdulkhay Akhatov was a Volga Tatar, he immersed into studying of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |