The Chulym Tatars are located between the Shors and the Baraba Tatars. Of the two the more widespread is the Lower-Chulym dialect. The differences in the dialects are quite distinct, existing not only in pronunciation but also in vocabulary and grammar. The differences are such that speakers of the different dialects would have difficulty in understanding each other. The Chulym language is very expressive of a nomadic people's lifestyle in a taiga region.
Words related to life as it was during the Soviet period are predominantly of Russian origin.
Compared against its related languages, Chulym is closer to the Khakass and the Altai dialects than to the languages of the Baraba Tatars. Anthropologically the Chulym Tatars belong to the Mongoloid Central-Asia racial type. Some tribes are fairer and slimmer, closer to the Uralic race. Probably influenced from the 6th century on by the Altai and Uighur tribes they became turkicized. More Kirghiz of the Yenisey, Teleuts and Tatars came from the Tobolsk region in the 17th century, after the Russians conquered the Siberian Khanate.