Telengit language

Telengit is a Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic in Russia by the Telengits.^[2] It is widespread in the Kosh-Agach and Ulagan districts of the Altai Republic.^[1]

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Telengit
Телеҥит тил Teleñit til
Native to	Russia
Region	Altai Republic
Ethnicity	15,000 Telengits (2019–2024)^[1]
Native speakers	c. 15,000 (2019–2024)^[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kyrgyz–Kipchak [ru] Southern Altai Telengit
Dialects	Telengit-Teles Chui
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	`alt_tal` Talangit
Glottolog	`tala1279`
A map of the Altai languages, including Telengit (in orange).

The Telengit are also known as the Telengit-kiji or Chui-kiji.

Dialects

The Telengit language can be divided into two main dialects, the Telengit-Teles and Chui dialects.

The Telengit-Teles dialect can be subdivided in to the following subdialects:

Balyktuyul
Kara-Kudyur
Chibilin
Saratan-Yazulin
- Saratan
- Yuzulin
Cholushman
Chibit

The Chui dialect can be subdivided in to the following subdialects:^[3]

Kosh-Agach
Jazzator - This subdialect has a unique feature that is not typical of other dialects of the Altaic language: affixes with a wide rounded vowel [ӧ] occur after bases with a narrow rounded vowel [ӱ].

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Comparison with standard Altai

The Telengit language differs from the literary form of the Altai language in phonetics and morphology.

Instead of the initial [ш], [ч] is used. For example, Telengit чирдек (çirdek), Altay: ширдек 'felt carpet'. Also, in the roots of words, [ш] is used instead of [ч] (Teleñit тепчи (tepçi), Altay: тепши 'bowl').^[4]

The sounds [ф], [в], [ш], [ж], [щ], [ц] are not native Telengit and are found mainly in borrowings from the Russian language.^[1]

Alphabet

An alphabet for the Ulagan dialect was proposed in 2016.^[5]

The alphabet of the Telengit language of the Teles (Ulagan) dialect proposed by N. D. Almadakova^[6]
а	б	ӷ	ғ	д	j	и	й	к	қ	л	м	н	ҥ	о	ӧ	ҧ	р	с	т	у	ӱ	ч	х	ш	ы	э	ӓ

But the alphabet used is similar to that used in the Altaic language.^[7]:^{[citation needed]}

А а	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Ј ј	Е е
Ё ё	Ж ж	З з	И и	Й й	К к	Л л
М м	Н н	Ҥ ҥ	О о	Ӧ ӧ	П п	Р р
С с	Т т	У у	Ӱ ӱ	Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц
Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э

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Telengit language

Classification

Dialects

Comparison with standard Altai

Alphabet

Notes and references

Sources

External links

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