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

In Tumasheva’s opinion, the Tom dialect is grammatically very close to Altai and related languages.^[2]

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). (Sometimes considered a distinct language or dialect of Teleut^[3])

• Siberian Tatars
• Siberian Tatar language
• Khanate of Sibir

• Д.Б.Рамазанова: Древние особенности татарских говоров Сибири. Исследование татарских говоров Сибири имеет долгую и богатую историю.
• Сибирскотатарский язык. Малые языки России.
• Information about Siberian Tatar language

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.^{[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]}