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{{Short description|Sayan Turkic language}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox language | name = Tuvan | nativename = {{lang|tyv|Тыва дыл}} {{lang|tyv-latn|Tıva tıl}} | states = [[Russia]], [[Mongolia]], [[China]] | region = [[Tuva]] | ethnicity = [[Tuvans]] | speakers = 130,000 | date = 2021 | ref = | familycolor = Altaic | fam1 = [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] | fam2 = [[Common Turkic languages|Common Turkic]] | fam3 = Sayan Turkic | fam4 = Steppe Sayan Turkic<ref name="refRagagnin">Elisabetta Ragagnin (2011), [http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/dzo/artikel/201/004/4043_201.pdf?t=1322214979 Dukhan, a Turkic Variety of Northern Mongolia, Description and Analysis], Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden</ref>{{Refn|group=notes|Although most Tuvan dialects are classified as Steppe Sayan Turkic, the Tozhu and Tere-Khöl dialects are classified as Taiga Sayan Turkic.<ref name="refRagagnin" />}} | script = [[Cyrillic script]] | nation = {{flag|Russia}}<ul><li>{{flag|Tuva}}</li></ul> | iso2 = tyv | iso3 = tyv | glotto = tuvi1240 | glottoname = Tuvinian | glotto2 = todj1234 | glottoname2 = Todja | ELP2 = 10479 | ELPname2 = Tuha | notice = IPA | map2 = Lang Status 80-VU.svg | mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Tuvan is classified as Vulnerable by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}} | pronunciation = {{IPA|[tʰɤ̀ʋɐ tɤ̀ɫ]}} | map = Tuvan language on the map.png | mapsize = | mapcaption = Distribution of Tuvan in Tuva and surrounding regions }} {{Infobox ethnonym|root=|person= |people= [[Tuvans|Tuvan / Tyvans]]<br>Тывалар<br>Тувинцы|language= [[Tuvan language|Tuvan / Tyvan]]<br>Тыва дыл|country=[[Tuva|Tuva / Tyva]]<br>Тува<br>Тыва}} [[File:WIKITONGUES- Aydyn speaking Tuvan.webm|thumb|A Tuvan speaker]] [[File:Kyzyl orkhon inscription.jpg|thumb|Inscription in [[Kyzyl]] using [[Old Turkic script|Turkic script]]]] '''Tuvan''',{{efn|{{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|uː|v|ə|n}} {{respell|TOO|vən}}; {{lang-rus|Тувинский язык|r=Tuvinskij jazyk|p=tʊˈvʲinskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk}}}} also spelt '''Tyvan''',{{efn|{{langx|tyv|Тыва дыл}} {{lang|tyv-latn|Tıva tıl}} {{IPA|tyv|tʰɤ̀ʋɐ tɤ̀ɫ|}}}} is a [[Turkic languages|Turkic language]] spoken in the [[Tuva|Republic of Tuva]] in [[South Central Siberia]], [[Russia]]. There are small groups of [[Tuvans]] that speak distinct dialects of Tuvan in [[China]] and [[Mongolia]]. <!--==Geographic distribution==--> <!--==Official status==-->
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