Southern Altai language

Southern Altai
Алтай тили
Spoken in Russia
Region Gorno-Altai Ao mountains
Native speakers 20,000  (date missing)
Language family
Turkic
Language codes
ISO 639-2 alt
ISO 639-3 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 Mongolia and 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.[1]

Notes

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

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