Tozhu Tyvans

Тугалар / Тухалар
a Tozhu Tyvan man, Iy (Ий) River, 1897
Total population
4,442 (2002)[1]
[2]
Russia	1,858
Languages
Tozhu Tyvan,Russian
Religion
Tibetan Buddhism,Tengrism
Related ethnic groups
OtherTyvans,Dukhans,Tofalars,Soyots,Samoyeds,[3] several otherTurkic peoples andUriankhai Mongols

TheTozhu Tuvans,Tozhu Tuvinians,Todzhan Tyvans orTodzhinians (own name: ТугаларTugalar or ТухаларTukhalar;Russian Тувинцы-тоджинцыTuvincy-todžincy, ТоджинцыTodžincy) are aTurkic subgroup of theTyvans living inTodzhinsky District of theRepublic of Tyva. The Tozhu Tyvans arereindeer herders.^[4]

The language of the Tozhu Tyvan people is a subdialect of Eastern (or Northeastern) dialect ofTyvan language.^{[citation needed]} The Tozhu Tyvan dialect is classified as part of the Taiga Sayan Turkic branch of Sayan Turkic along with Tere-Khöl Tuvan, while most other Tyvan dialects are classified as part of the Steppe Sayan Turkic branch.^[3]

Y-DNA haplogroups, by percentage: Q — 52 %, N — 37 %: N-L666 — 21 %, N3a5а — 12 %.^[5]

• Chadamba, Z. B. Тоджинский диалект тувинского языка (The Tozhu dialect of the Tuvan language). Kyzyl: Tuvknigoizdat, 1974
• Вайнштейн 1961 – Вайнштейн С.И. Тувинцы-тоджинцы. Историко-этнографические очерки. - М., 1961.
• Donahoe 2002 - Donahoe B. "Hey, You! Get offa my Taiga!" : comparing the sense of property rights among the Tofa and Tozhu-Tyva. – Halle/Saale: Max Planck Inst. for Social Anthropology Working Paper Series No. 38, 2002.
• Donahoe 2004 - Donahoe B. A line in the Sayans: history and divergent perceptions of property among the Tozhu and Tofa of South Siberia. - Bloomington : Indiana University, 2004.
• Donahoe 2006 - Donahoe B. Who owns the Taiga?: inclusive vs. exclusive senses of property among the Tozhu and Tofa of southern Siberia. - In Sibirica (5:1), 2006. - P.87-116.
• Донахо 2008 – Донахо Б. Тувинцы-тоджинцы: очерк современной культуры // Тюркские народы Восточной Сибири / Отв. ред. Д.А. Функ, Н.А. Алексеев. М., 2008. С. 186–204.

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