Turkic people living in the Siberian Altai Republic, Russia
Altai people
Алтайлар (Altailar) Алтай-кижи (Altai-kiji)
Top: Flag of the Altai Republic, Russia Bottom: Altai people in the Altai Republic and neighboring areas
Total population
c. 80,000
Regions with significant populations
Russia
Altai Republic
Altai Krai
78,125[1]
Mongolia and China
several thousand[2]
Kazakhstan
201[3]
Languages
Northern Altai, Southern Altai, Russian
Religion
up to 86.77%[4][5] "Altai Faith" (modern synthesis of Burkhanism, Shamanism, other native cults),[6] 10.7% Russian Orthodox,[7] 2.2% Tibetan Buddhist,[8] and 0.33% Baptist[9]
Related ethnic groups
Turkic peoples, especially other Siberian Turkic peoples
Altai people.
The Altai people (Altay: Алтай-кижи, romanized: Altay-kiji), also the Altaians (Altay: Алтайлар, romanized: Altaylar), are a Turkic ethnic group of indigenous peoples of Siberia mainly living in the Altai Republic, Russia.[10][11] Several thousand of the Altaians also live in Mongolia (Altai Mountains) and China (Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang) but are not officially recognized as a distinct group[2] and listed under the name "Oirats" as a part of the Mongols, as well as in Kazakhstan where they number around 200.[12] For alternative ethnonyms see also Tele, Black Tatar, and Oirats. During the Northern Yuan dynasty, they were ruled in the administrative area known as Telengid Province.
^"Национальный состав населения". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
^ abOlson, James S. (1998). "Altai". An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 0-313-28853-4.
^Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on statistics. 2009 CensusArchived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
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^"Пандито Хамбо лама: Алтайцам следует принять буддизм". 17 January 2019.
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^"Пандито Хамбо лама: Алтайцам следует принять буддизм". 17 January 2019.
^"Пандито Хамбо лама: Алтайцам следует принять буддизм". 17 January 2019.
^"Altai-Kizhi in Russia".
^Tishkov, Valery A., ed. (1994). "Алтайцы" [Altaians]. Народы России: Энциклопедия [Peoples of Russia: an Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Moscow: Great Russian Encyclopedia Pub. ISBN 5-85270-082-7.
^Zhukovskaia, Natalia L. (2007) [1999]. "Алтайцы" [Altaians]. In L.M. Mints (ed.). Народы мира: Энциклопедия [Peoples of the World: an Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Moscow: OLMA Media Group. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-5-373-01057-3.
^Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on statistics. 2009 CensusArchived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
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