Soyot is a Turkic language spoken in the Oka area of the Republic of Buryatia in the east of Russia, and also in the Darkhad Valley in Khövsgöl Province of Mongolia. According to the 2010 Russian census, there are about 3,600 Soyot people, however very few of them speak Soyot: most speak Buryat and Russian. Soyot is closely related to Tofa and Uyghur.
A way to write Soyot using the Cyrillic alphabet was devised by Professor Valentin I. Rassadin (Валентин Рассадин) in 2001 at the request of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia. Since then a number of Soyot dictionaries and other books have been published, and the language in now taught in some schools in Buryatia.
Download a Soyot alphabet chart
Details of Soyot pronunciation provided by Michael Peter Füstumum
Information about Soyot | Numbers
Шаанда шағ шаанда бір аңшы киши турған иик. Аңнап чоруур аъты, ивисі та ҷоқ болған иик. Кылашта чорып аң қылган иик. Дыт чөъһирәәсі білә шып қаған алаҷы-өғліғ болған иик. Ол аңшы киши иъһі урығлығ иик. Бірәәсі иъһи наъсыннығ, бірәәсі беш наъсыннығ иик.
Once upon a time there was a hunter. He didn't have a horse or a deer to go hunting. He hunted on a hot. He had a plague covered with larch bark. The hunter had two children. One of them was two years old, the other was five.
Source: Рассадин В.И. Язык сойотов Бурятии
Sample text provided by Jin Wei Hii
Information about the Soyot language and people
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сойотско-цаатанский_язык
https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сойотська_мова
http://lingsib.iea.ras.ru/en/languages/soiot.shtml
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10480
https://todiscoverrussia.com/soyots/
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/reindeer-herding-eastern-sayan-story-soyot
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