Soyots are a Turkic people similar to the Tuvans. Their language has been restructed and a textbook has been published.
It is taught in some schools in the Okinskiy District where most of the Soyots live. Soyots were originally a Sayan Samoyed people who underwent Turkization and Buryatization over the centuries.
Presently, there are 2.800 Soyots, almost all of them in Buryatia's Okinskiy District.