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    Altai or Altay (Altay: Алтай тил, romanized: Altay til) is a set of Turkic languages spoken officially in the Altai Republic, Russia. The standard vocabulary...
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    Southern Altai (also known as Oirot, Oyrot, Altai and Altai proper) is a Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic, a federal subject of Russia located...
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    язык [Altai language]. In Institut Jazykoznanija (ed.). Tyurkskie yazyki Языки мира: тюркские языки [Languages of the world: Turkic languages]. Jazyki...
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    speakers), Northern Altai (c. 57,000 speakers) and Khakas (c. 29,000 speakers). Despite their usual English name, two major Turkic languages spoken in Siberia...
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    Altai language and dialects, include the Chelkans, Kumandins, and Tubalars (Tuba-Kizhi). The Southern Altaians, who speak the Southern Altai language...
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    Central Asian ethnicities, and Germans. The official languages of the Altai Republic are Russian and Altai. Kazakh is official in areas of compact settlement...
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  • surname Altai people, an ethnic group Altai languages, the languages spoken by these people Altai, a historical novel by Wu Ming Rupes Altai, a feature...
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    Russia portal Altai Republic Altai Krai Altay Prefecture Govi-Altai Province Altaic languages Altay language Altai-Sayan region List of Altai mountains Graeme...
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    Altai Republic, or Qu'Kiji. In the 2002 Russian census, their population rose to 855 people. Chelkan is classified in the Siberian Turkic languages....
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    Northern Altai language. Kumandin is classed in the Siberian Turkic branch of the Turkic languages. It is considered as a dialect of Northern Altai. The Kumandin...
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    to the study of the Turkic languages] (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. Kormushin, I. V. (2018). "Алтайский язык" [Altai language]. Большая российская энциклопедия/Great...
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    as a distinct language. It was the basis for the Altai literary language before 1917. The language is classed in the Kipchak languages by Novgorodov et...
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    Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic in Russia by the Telengits. It is widespread in the Kosh-Agach and Ulagan districts of the Altai Republic...
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    separate letter in alphabets. En-ge is used in the alphabets of the Altai languages, Meadow Mari, Tundra Yukaghir (except in some Saint Petersburg publications...
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    Western dialects maintain limited mutual intelligibility with the Altai languages. In October 2017, Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev decreed that...
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    чернёвых татар) or Tubalars. The language is classified in the Siberian Turkic languages. It is considered to be a Northern Altai dialect. However, this classification...
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  • The Turkic languages are a group of languages spoken across Central Asia, West Asia, North Asia as well as Eastern Europe. Turkic languages are spoken...
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    national level. There are 25 other official languages, which are used in different regions of Russia. These languages include; Ossetic, Ukrainian, Buryat, Kalmyk...
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    Kumandins (category Articles containing Northern Altai-language text)
    They reside mainly in the Altai Krai and Altai Republic of the Russian Federation. They speak the Northern Altai Kumandin language. According to the 1926...
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    Altai Krai (Russian: Алта́йский край, romanized: Altayskiy kray, [ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj]) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders, clockwise from...
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    Teleuts (category Articles with Russian-language sources (ru))
    Teleut language/dialect of Southern Altai language. In the Soviet years and until 2000, the authorities considered the Teleuts to be part of the Altai people...
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    Govi-Altai (Mongolian: Говь-Алтай [qœ́w‿ɐɬtʰɛ̂]) is a province in western Mongolia. The Altai Airport (LTI/ZMAT) has one paved runway and is served by...
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    to Altai and similar languages. The Tevriz sub-dialect of the Tobol-Irtysh dialect shares significant elements with the Siberian Turkic languages, namely...
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  • Lower Chulym dialect (category Articles containing Northern Altai-language text)
    Russia. It went extinct in 2011. It is sometimes grouped with Northern Altai and the Kondoma dialect of Shor, due to similarities. When the Russian researcher...
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    spoken near the upper course of the Khemchik. It is influenced by the Altai language. Northeastern, also known as the Todzhi dialect, is spoken near the...
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  • Altaydyn cholmony (category Altai Republic)
    Алтайдыҥ чолмоны, CTA: Altaydıñ çolmonı, lit. Star of Altai) is the main Altai language newspaper of the Altai Republic. It is printed 3 times a week. The newspaper...
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    Lake Balkhash (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
    lake originates from the word "balkas" of Tatar, Kazakh and Southern Altai languages which means "tussocks in a swamp". From as early as 103 BC up until...
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    There exist several alphabets used by Turkic languages, i.e. alphabets used to write Turkic languages: The New Turkic Alphabet (Yañalif) in use in the...
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    Che with vertical stroke (category Articles containing Azerbaijani-language text)
    Che with vertical stroke is used in the alphabet of the Azeri language and Altai language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/...
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    language belonging to the Kipchak branch of the family. It is considered to be an East Kipchak language, forming a subfamily with the Southern Altai language...
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