| Tubalar | |
| Familycolor: | Altaic |
| Ethnicity: | Tubalars |
| Region: | Altai Republic, Altai Krai |
| States: | Russia |
| Speakers: | 930 |
| Date: | 2020 |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Fam1: | Turkic |
| Fam2: | Common Turkic |
| Fam3: | Kipchak/Siberian Turkic |
| Fam4: | Kyrgyz-Kipchak/South Siberian |
| Fam5: | Yenisei Turkic |
| Script: | Cyrillic |
| Nativename: | Туба, Тума |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Map: | Altay.svg |
| Mapcaption: | A map of the Altai languages, including Tubalar (in green). |
| Fam6: | Northern Altai |
| Glotto: | tuba1280 |
The Tuba-Kiji, Tubalar or Tuba language is a Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic in Russia, by the Tuba-Kiji, who are sometimes called "Black Tatars" or Tubalars.
The language is classified in the Siberian Turkic languages. It is considered to be a Northern Altai dialect.[2] However, this classification is disputed, and it may be a Kipchak language. The Tubalars, aside from knowing Tubalar, also can understand Chelkan and Kumandin.
In 2010, a Russian-Tubalar phrasebook was published, with the following orthography:[3]
| А а | Б б | В в | Г г | Ғ ғ | Д д | Ј ј | Е е | Ё ё | Ж ж | Җ җ | З з |
| И и | Й й | К к | Қ қ | Л л | Љ љ | М м | Н н | Ҥ ҥ | Њ њ | О о | Ӧ ӧ |
| П п | Р р | С с | Т т | У у | Ӱ ӱ | Ф ф | Х х | Ц ц | Ч ч | Ҷ ҷ | Ш ш |
| Щ щ | Ъ ъ | Ы ы | Ь ь | Э э | Ю ю | Я я |