Southern Altai language

Southern Altai language

language
name=Southern Altai
familycolor=Altaic
states=Russia
region=Gorno-Altai Ao mountains
speakers=20,000
fam1=Altaic [The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.]
fam2=Turkic
fam3=Northern
iso2=tut|iso3=alt

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. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

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* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=alt Ethnologue entry for Southern Altai]

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