Southern Altai language
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| Southern Altai | ||
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| Spoken in: | Russia | |
| Region: | Gorno-Altai Ao mountains | |
| Total speakers: | 20,000 | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] Turkic Northern Southern Altai |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | alt | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Southern Altai (also known as Oirot, Oyrot, Altai) is a Turkic language spoken in the Gorno-Altai Ao mountains of Russia on the border of Mongoliaand the People's Republic of China. There is no mutual intelligibility with Northern Altai. Written Altai is based on Southern Altai, but is rejected by Northern Altai children. Dialects include Altai Proper and Talangit. [2]
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- ^ The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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