[6] Ös speakers reside primarily in Belij Yar, Novoshumilovo, Ozyornoe, and Teguldet, in eastern Tomsk Oblast and Pasechnoe in western Krasnoyarsk Kray.

[citation needed] Nogorodov et al. argue that Chulym is of Kipchak origins, based on the Leipzig-Jakarta list.

[11] Chulym was once a widely spoken language but its history consists of "multiple waves of colonization and linguistic assimilation first into Turkic, and now into Russian".

This included the act of rounding up children and sending them to boarding schools, where they learned the nation's language and were forced not to speak their own native tongue.

Furthermore, in the 1970s, the Chulym community was forced into Russian-speaking settlements, where they had to adapt and speak the Russian language in order to move up in the social ladder and have greater chances of economic prosperity.

Not only were the Chulym people forced to abandon their language, but also the government dropped them from the census statistics as a distinct ethnic group after 1959.

Under the eyes of the government, the Chulym population was seen as non-existent, and not enough to earn itself a place as a different national unit; it was not until 1999 that the community regained their status as a separate ethnic entity.

It was not until David Harrison and Greg Anderson from the documentary The Linguists, that they began using scientific methods to document the Chulym language.

Accordingly, in collaboration with Vasya and the other two speakers, the two linguists were able to list words in Chulym such as numbers, greetings, a wool-spinning song, aphorisms, and bear- and moose-hunting stories.

They were also able to collect personal narratives, spontaneous conversations, body parts, colors, fauna, flora and kin terms, along with instructions on how to use certain tools such as fur-covered skis and wooden canoes.

They also asked the natives to interpret specific sentences, with the intention to identify some of the rules of Chulym grammar.

Most commonly, interjections and discourse markers are borrowed from Russian, in addition to concepts that have no corresponding Chulym words.

[citation needed] The Siberian folk band Otyken are known for singing in the Chulym language.

[20] There is an ongoing effort by the Living Tongues Institute to write a book in Chulym and make it available through mass media.