Tofa Turks, also called Karagas, live in the Irkutsk region of the Russian Federation. Tofa Turkic, which is used as a spoken language, is in danger of extinction today. In the vocabulary of Tofa Turkic, who live together with the Russians, many elements pass through Russian.

In this study; some evaluations were made on the phonetic features of the vocabulary taken from Russian in Tofa Turkic. The identified items belonging to the vocabulary are shown both in their transcripted form and in their original form in the dictionary. 

The dictionary named “Tofalarsko-Russkiy Slovar 2016 (Tofaca-Russian Dictionary 2016)” prepared by V. I. Rassadin has been accepted as a database. According to the results of the study based on the database; There are 338 words in the vocabulary taken from Russian in Tofa Turkic in this dictionary and the number of items in which no sound event occurs is 21. The low rate of words that do not have a phonetic event shows that Tofa Turkic generally resembles borrowed words with their phonetic features. Based on the database; within the vocabulary taken from Russian in Tofa Turkic, 253 vocabulary items containing secondary long vocals that have emerged as a result of various phonetic events have been identified. It can be said that the absence of wide-round vocals after the first syllable, which is one of the general phonetic features of the Turkic language, causes the o-ö vocals after the first syllable in Tofa Turkic to turn into narrow vocals. 23 such vocal contractions have been identified in the vocabulary taken from Russian in Tofa Turkic. It has been observed that a total of 33 vocal derivations, 13 in the front voice, 15 in the inner voice, and 5 in the last voice, occur in the vocabulary taken from Russian in Tofa Turkic due to reasons such as the derivation and localization of the words. The most common consonant changes in Tofa Turkic in the vocabulary taken from Russian are k>ħ with 38 and k>q with 23 pieces. Both voice changes generally occurred in the front voice.

Tofa Turkic, vocabulary taken from Russian, phonological features, grammar