[1][5] In 2020, he published a children's picture dictionary in the Soyot language, along with Russian, Mongolian, and English translations.

At this point, they were acknowledged as a separate nationality by the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia.

[11] Rassadin reports that the Soyot and Tsaatan dialects, have very similar phonological systems.

Rassadin employs a Cyrillic-based writing system to represent Soyot in his dictionaries and grammars.

The plural is formed with the suffix /-LAr/, which has six possible surface variations depending on vowel harmony and the preceding sound.

The involves taking the first syllable plus /p/ and adding it to the front of the word, e.g. qap-qara "very black", sap-sarɯɣ "very yellow".