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Tofa also known as Tofalar or Karagas is one of the Turkic languages spoken in Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast by the Tofalars. It is a moribund language; in 2010 only 93 people were reported to speak it.Tofa is most-closely related to the Tuvan language and forms a dialect continuum with it. Tuha and Tsengel Tuvan may be dialects of either Tuvan or Tofa.