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Name:
Southern Altai
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Altai; Altai (Southern); Altai, Southern; Oirot; Oyrot; Altai-Kalmückisch; Altay; South Siberian Turkic; Southern Altay
Spoken in:
Russia
Number of speakers:
20,000 (1993 J. Janhunen). Ethnic population: 67,239 (including Northern Altai [atv], but excluding 2,399 Talangits and 2,650 Teleuts, 2002 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
50000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
20000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
alt
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Turkic
Parent Subgroup:
Altai; Altay; Altay Turkic (altk)
Child Dialect Groups:
Telengit; Talangit (alt-tel)
Altai Proper; Altai-Kizhi; Altaj Kizi; Maina-Kizhi; Southern Altai; Altaisch; Maima-Kizhi (alt-alt)
Child Dialect:
Teleut (alt-tet)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Southern Altai
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