Web   ·   Wiki   ·   Activities   ·   Blog   ·   Lists   ·   Chat   ·   Meeting   ·   Bugs   ·   Git   ·   Translate   ·   Archive   ·   People   ·   Donate
summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/tyv.html
blob: 5758c1fcba2b95b85d38eb784e8684afa5ea02a3 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
<html><body><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<div style="position: relative;   float: left; width:20%; margin-top:20px; padding-left:8px;">

</div>
<div id="TEST" style="position: relative;   float:left; width:70%; margin-top:20px; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;">
<h2>&nbsp;Universal Declaration of Human Rights </h2>
<style type="text/css">

.udhrtext h4
{
color: #e95200;
font-size: 12px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
text-decoration: none;
}
  
  
</style>

<div style="float:left; width:70%; margin-top:20px; padding-top:5px;">

<br />

<br />
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblLangVersionID">Tuvan</span>
<br />
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblSourceID"><b> Source: </b></span> <span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblSourceValue">Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Russian Federation</span>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblLang" class="udhrtext"></span>
<br />
</div>

<div style=" float:right; width:22%; margin-top:-15px;  margin-left:10px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:10px; background-color:#f5f5f5;">
<h2> Profile </h2>
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblNativeName" style="display:inline-block;"><b>Native Name</b></span>
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblNativeNameValue">Tuvan</span>
<br />
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblTotalSpeakers"><b>Total Speakers</b></span>
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_txtTotalSpeakersValue"><div>200,000</div></span>
<br />
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblUsageByCountry"><b>Usage By Country</b></span><br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblUsageByCountryValue"><span lang="EN-US">Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia.</span></span>
<br />
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblBackground"><b>Background </b></span>
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblBackgroundValue"><span lang="EN-US">Tuvan (Tuvan: Тыва дыл Tyva dyl), also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan or Tuvin, is a Turkic language spoken by around 200,000 people in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia. The language borrows a great number of roots from the Mongolian language and more recently from the Russian language. There are small diaspora groups of Tuvan people that speak distinct dialects of Tuvan in the People's Republic of China and in Mongolia.</span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tuvan is linguistically classified as a Northeastern or Siberian Turkic language, closely related to several other Siberian Turkic languages including Khakas and Altai languages. Tuvan, as spoken in Tuva, is principally divided into <b>four dialect groups:</b> </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li style="tab-stops:list 36.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Western</span></li>
<li style="tab-stops:list 36.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Central</span></li>
<li style="tab-stops:list 36.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Northeastern</span></li>
<li style="tab-stops:list 36.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Southeastern</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Central: forms the basis of the literary language and includes Ovyur and Bii-Khem sub-dialects.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Western: can be found spoken near the upper course of the Khemchik River. It is influenced by interaction with the Altai language.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Northeastern, also known as the Todzhi dialect, is spoken near the upper course of the Bii-Khem River. The speakers of this dialect utilize nasalization. It contains a large vocabulary related to hunting and reindeer breeding that not found in the other dialects.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Southeastern: shows the most influence from the Mongolian language.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Other dialects include those spoken by the Dzungar, the Tsengel and the Dukha bands of Tuvans, but currently these uncommon dialects are not comprehensively documented.</span></p><span lang="EN-US">Tuvan vocabulary is largely Turkic in origin but marked by a large number of Mongolian loanwords. The language has also borrowed several Mongolian suffixes. In addition, there exist Ketic and Samoyedic substrata.</span>
<br />
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblReceived"><b>Received</b></span> <span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblReceivedValue">11/23/2009</span>
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblPosted" style="margin-top:5px"><b>Posted</b></span> <span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblPostedValue" style="margin-top:5px">11/30/2009</span>
<br />
<span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblChecked" style="margin-top:10px"><b>Checked</b></span> <span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_usrUDHRLanguage_lblCheckedValue" style="margin-top:10px">11/29/2009</span>
</div>
</div>
</body></html>