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Southern Altai | |
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Oirot, Oyrot (before 1948), Altai-Kizhi | |
тÿштÿк алтай тил, tüştük altay til ойрот тил (before 1948) | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Altai Republic |
Ethnicity | Altai-Kizhi |
Native speakers | 68,700 (2020)[1] |
Dialects | |
Cyrillic | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | alt |
ISO 639-3 | alt |
Glottolog | sout2694 |
ELP | Southern Altai |
Southern Altai | |
Southern Altay is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[5] |
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.[6]
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.[7]
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