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Name: Northern Altai
Type: Subgroup
Alternate Names: Teleut; Altai, Northern; Telengut; Telengit; Northern Altay; Teleutisch
Spoken in: Russia
Number of speakers: 1,570. Tubalars. Other Northern Altai speakers listed under Southern Altai [alt] in Census (2002). Ethnic population: 67,239 (including Southern Altai) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 29098 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: atv
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Turkic
Parent Subgroup: Altai; Altay; Altay Turkic (altk)
Child Languages: Tuba (1pz) Chalkan; Kuu; Qü; Lebedin (1py) Kumandi; Kumandy; Qumanda (1p0)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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