Khakas is a
Turkic language spoken by the
Khakas people, who mainly live in the southern Siberian Khakas Republic, or
Khakassia, in
Russia. The Khakas number 78,500, of whom 60,168 speak the Khakas language; most people are bilingual in
Russian. Its
ISO 639-3 code is kjh.Traditionally, the Khakas language is divided into several closely related dialects, which take their names from the different tribes: Sagay, Kacha, Koybal, Beltir, and Kyzyl. In fact, these names represent former administrative units rather than tribal or linguistic groups. The people speaking all these dialects simply referred to themselves as Tadar (i.e. Tatar). Shor, which was later on recognised as a Khakas dialect, is spoken by people who originally came from
Shoria, currently the
Kemerovo region.
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