Tom dialect

Tom
Tom
Native to	Russia
Region	Kemerovo, Tomsk and Novosibirsk Oblasts
Ethnicity	Tom Tatars
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Kyrgyz Tom; ; ; ;
Dialects	Eushta-Chat; Or Chat; Kalmak;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tomm1241

Tom dialect is one of three major dialects of Siberian Tatars. Eushta, Kalmak and Chat Tatars speak this dialect.

According to Tumasheva, Tom dialect is divided into three sub-dialects:

Eushta-Chat dialect (Tomsk Oblast)
- Or sub-dialect of Chat Tatars (Novosibirsk Oblast)
Kalmak dialect (Kemerovo Oblast).

In Tumasheva's opinion, Tom dialect is gramatically very close to Altai and related languages.