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| | Chulym Turckik |
 | | The Chulym-Turkic language, so named after the river Chulym, a right tributary of the Ob', flowing in a roughly counter-clockwise arc through the Tomskaja Oblast' and the southern part of the Krasnojarskij Kraj, is, due to the highly unsatisfactory state of its documentation, notoriously difficult to classify within the Turkic family. |
 | | A common self-designation of the Chulym -Turkic ethnos and language seems not to be in general use, most refer to themselves and their language with terms derived from the names of their settlements, while officially they are mostly referred to as Khakas by the authorities, to which practice, however, most Chulym Turks object. |
 | | In terms of documentation, Chulym Turkic is also one of the least studied Turkic languages; apart from casual collections of scattered data which have been included in some Turkological reference works, the serious study of Chulym Turkic in its own right began only after the World War II. |
| www.owlnet.rice.edu /~andreif/project/Chulym%20Turkic%20language.htm (450 words) |
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