Talk:Altay people

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The Altai are currently actually a minority in the Republic Altai and the 20% figure of 1950 was mainly due to the Russian influx. Also it is called a 'North Russian' republic, while it is in the south. Could somebody correct this errors? (my English is not so good, that's why) --Hardscarf 14:36, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "related groups" info removed from infobox

For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all {{Infobox Ethnic group}} infoboxes. Comments may be left on the Ethnic groups talk page. Ling.Nut 20:36, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling mistake

There is a spelling mistake on the top of the text. --> oryots instead of oyrots

[edit] move to Altai people

We already have Altai Republic, so using Altai people seems somewhat logical. The Republic itself seems to us this designation on its website (you may also try google cache). "Altay people" and "Altai people" seem about equally popular on google, but "Altaians" [1] seems to be much more popular than "Altayans" [2].

Google Schlar hits:

Altai people: 57 [3]

Altay people: 3 [4]

Altaians: 342 [5]

Altayans: 19 [6]

Encoclopaedia Britannica uses "Altaic peoples" [7] (google cache).

Yaan (talk) 18:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

"Altaic peoples" is a different thing, usage of -ic is regular in those terms.--Imz (talk) 10:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps, you are right. As the links in Altai language show, SIL, Ethnologue also use the "Altai" spelling: [8], [9].--Imz (talk) 11:01, 12 February 2008 (UTC)