Tom dialect

Tom
Tom
Native to	Russia
Region	Kemerovo, Tomsk and Novosibirsk Oblasts
Ethnicity	Tom Tatars
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Kyrgyz Siberian Tatar Tom; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Eushta-Chat; Or Chat; Kalmak;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tomm1241 Tomsk Tatar; kalm1245 Kalmak Tatar

Tom dialect is one of three major dialects of Siberian Tatars. Eushta, Kalmak and Chat Tatars speak this dialect.

NativetoRussia

EthnicityTom Tatars

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According to Tumasheva, Tom dialect is divided into three sub-dialects:

Eushta-Chat dialect (Tomsk Oblast)
- Or sub-dialect of Chat Tatars (Novosibirsk Oblast)
Kalmak dialect (Kemerovo Oblast).

In Tumasheva's opinion, Tom dialect is grammatically very close to Altai and related languages.^[2]

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