Shor

CJS

threatened

Alternate Names: Aba, Kondoma Tatar, Kuznets Tatar, Mras Tatar, Shortsy, Tom-Kuznets Tatar

Dialects: Kondoma, Mrassa (Mrasu). Some sources combine Shor and Chulym ,.

Genealogy:

Altaic
Turkic
Northern

Demographics: 2,840 (2010 census). 50 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 12,900 (2010 census).

Language Use: Few domains except perhaps family. Mostly middle-aged or older (Salminen 2007). Neutral to strongly positive attitudes. All except 50 monolinguals also speak Russian.

Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 95% in Russian. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible portions: 2000–2011.

Writing System: Cyrillic

Nation of Origin: Russian Federation

Other Comments: Different from Shor dialect of Khakas ,. Study of Shor revived; language association formed; chair of Shor created at Pedagogical University in Novokuznetsk (1996 I. Nevskaya). Traditional religion, Christian.