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Southern Altai
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Kipchak Turkic language of the Altai Republic, Russia
Key facts
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Altai Republic
- Ethnicity
- Altai-Kizhi
- Native speakers
- 68,700 (2020)
- Language family
- Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kyrgyz–Kipchak Southern Altai
- Dialects
- Southern Altai proper Telengit Teleut
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Iso 639 2
- alt
- Iso 639 3
- alt
- Glottolog
- sout2694
- Elp
- Southern Altai
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Kyrgyz–Kipchak
- Country
- Russia
Show 10 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Southern Altai language
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 55720
- dialect of
- Altai
- indigenous to
- Altai Mountains
- native label
- алтай тил
- Wikimedia language code
- alt
- opposite of
- Northern Altai
- P10369
- Ethiopia
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Encyclopedic overview
Southern Altai (also known as Oirot, Oyrot, Altai and Altai proper) is a Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic, a federal subject of Russia located in Southern Siberia on the border with Mongolia and China. The language has some mutual intelligibility with the Northern Altai language, leading to the two being traditionally considered as a single language. According to modern classifications—at least since the middle of the 20th century—they are considered to be two separate languages.
A man, named Dmitry, speaking Southern Altai. Written Altai is based on Southern Altai. According to some reports, however, it is rejected by Northern Altai children. Dialects include Altai Proper and Talangit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Southern Altai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.