Kipchak Turkic language of the Altai Republic, Russia
Southern Altai
Oirot, Oyrot (before 1948)
тÿштÿк алтай тил, tüştük altay til
Southern Altai written in Cyrillic and Latin scripts
Native to
Russia
Region
Altai Republic
Native speakers
68,700 (2020)[1]
Language family
Turkic
Common Turkic
Kipchak
Kyrgyz–Kipchak[2][3][4]
Southern Altai
Writing system
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-2
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ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
sout2694
ELP
Southern Altai
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.[5]
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.[6]
^"Информационные материалы об окончательных итогах Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года". Russian Federal State Statistics Service. 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
^Cite error: The named reference Baskakov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference Kormushin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Tekin, Tâlat (January 1989). "A New Classification of the Chuvash-Turkic Languages". Erdem. 5 (13): 129–139. doi:10.32704/erdem.1989.13.129. ISSN 1010-867X. S2CID 64344619.
^Nikolay Baskakov (1958). The Altai language. Moscow: Nauka.
^Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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