news-30122024
In late 2024 IBT published the second edition of "Stories about Jesus Christ" by Ivan Shtygashev (1861-1915) in the Shor language. The Shors are a Turkic people living in the south of the Kemerovo region of the Russian Federation. Mountain Shoria, where most Shor speakers live, borders on Khakassia and the Altai Mountains. The administrative centre of Shoria is the town of Tashtagol...
news-02092022
The Shors are a minority indigenous people who live in the south of Kemerovo Region (in the Novokuznetsk and Tashtagol areas of Russia) and beyond. According to the 2010 census, they number about 13,000 people. The written alphabet was created in 1927 based on the Russian script. Since that time, a number of school grammars, textbooks, primers, books for reading, several translations of classical Russian literature and a district newspaper were published.