The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: CJS
ISO 639-2: tut
| Population | 9,760 mother tongue speakers (61%) out of an ethnic population of 16,000 (1979 census). |
| Region | Altai Krai, Khakass AO and Gorno-Altai AO, on the River Tomy. |
| Alternate names | SHORTSY, ABA, KONDOMA TATAR, MRAS TATAR, KUZNETS TATAR, TOM-KUZNETS TATAR |
| Dialects | MRASSA, KONDOMA. |
| Classification | Altaic, Turkic, Northern. |
| Comments | Some sources combine Shor and Chulym. Before 1927 literary norms were developing, it was taught in school, literature was published, and the language and culture were studied. After 1937 it was no longer written or taught in school for 50 years, and the culture was damaged. There is now a revival of study (I.A. Nevskaya 1996). A language association has been formed, and a chair of Shor was formed at the Pedagogical Institute in Novokuzneck. Shor is different from the Shor dialect of Khakas. Grammar. Altai missionaries worked out the first alphabet in the middle of the 19th century. Mountain slope. Christian: Russian Orthodox. |
