Altay language

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Altay Алтай тили Altay tili
Spoken in:	Russia, Mongolia, China
Region:	Altai Republic (Southern Altay), Altai Krai (Northern Altay)
Total speakers:	71,600
Language family:	Altaic^[1] (controversial) Turkic Northern Turkic Altay
Official status
Official language of:	Altai Republic
Regulated by:	no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`tut`
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	either: `atv` — Northern Altay `alt` — Southern Altay
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Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages. It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia. The language was called Oyrot prior to 1948. There were ca. 52,000 people speaking this language in 1989. Two dialects of the Altay language are northern (with the Tuba, Kumandy, and Chalkan varieties named after the main tribes) and southern (with the Altai proper and Telengit varieties).

The language was written with the Latin alphabet from 1928-1938, but has used the Cyrillic alphabet (with the addition of 4 extra letters: Јј, Ҥҥ, Ӧӧ, Ӱӱ) since 1938.

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^ "[1] Ethnologue"

Ethnologue

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Telengits, Teleuts (names of related ethnic groups)
Altay Tatars
Turkic peoples
Altaic languages

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