Teleut language

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Teleut
Телеңет тили
Native to	Russia
Region	Kemerovo Oblast
Ethnicity	Teleuts
Native speakers	1,570 (2020)[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Southern Altai Teleut
Dialects	Kalmak? Bachat Tomsk
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tele1258
A map of the Altai languages, including Teleut (in pink).

Teleut is a moribund^[2] Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic in Russia. It is sometimes considered a dialect of Southern Altai, but also as its own language.^[3] Since 2000, the Russian government hass officially recgonized it as a distinct language.^[4] It was the basis for the Altai literary language before 1917.

The language is classed in the Kipchak languages by Novgorodov et al (2018).^[5] It is considered to be a dialect of Southern Altai, with the Telengit dialect or language and the literary form of Altai.

Teleut has 8 vowels:

In the 1840s, missionaries devised various alphabets to write Teleut to create Church materials for the Teleuts.

A compilation of the orthographies is listed below:

The current orthography of Teleut is as follows:^[7]

• (ru) Баскаков, Н.A., Диалект чернёвых татар (туба-кижи), Северные диалекты алтаиского (ойротского) языка, 2 volumes, Moscou, Nauka, 1965-1966.

• Altai languages

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.^{[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]}
• (ru) Teleut on the Russian UNESCO website dedicated for Siberian languages

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