Teleut language
Turkic language spoken in Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Classification
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.
Phonology
Teleut has 8 vowels:
Orthography
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:
Аа | Бб | Гг | Дд | Jj | Ее | Жж | Зз | Ii |
Йй | Кк, К̅ к̅ | Лл | Мм | Нн | Ҥҥ, Н̄ н̄ | Oo | Ӧӧ | Пп |
Рр | Сс | Тт | Уу | Ӱӱ | Чч | Шш | Ыы |
The current orthography of Teleut is as follows:[7]
А а | Б б | В в | Г г | Ғ ғ | Д д | Ј ј | Е е | Ё ё |
Ж ж | З з | И и | Й й | К к | Қ қ | Л л | М м | Н н |
Ң ң | 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 | ь | Ы ы |
Э э | Ю ю | Я я |
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