Tofa language

Not to be confused with Karagash dialect of Nogai or the Karagas dialect of the Mator language.

Tofa
Tofalar, Karagas
Тоъфа дыл To'fa dyl
Pronunciation	[t̪ɔˤfa d̪ɯl̪]
Native to	Russia
Region	Tofalariya, Irkutsk Oblast
Ethnicity	Tofalar
Native speakers	67 (2020 census)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic South Siberian Sayan Turkic Taiga Sayan Turkic Tofa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kim
Glottolog	kara1462  Taiga Sayan Turkic tofa1248  Tofa
ELP	Tofa
Tofalaria, the region inhabited by the Tofalar
Tofa is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Tofa (Тоъфа дыл, Tòfa dıl), also known as Tofalar or Karagas, is a Turkic language spoken in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia by the Tofalar, an indigenous people of Siberia. Tofa forms a dialect continuum with the closely related Tuvan language, and shares many features with it. Tofa is a critically endangered language, as classified by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, and recent estimates for speakers run from 67 to fewer than 40 individuals.