Telengit language

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Telengit
Телеҥит тил
Native to Russia
Region Altai Republic
Ethnicity15,000 Telengits (2019–2024) [1]
Native speakers
c.15,000 (2019–2024) [1]
Dialects
  • Telengit-Teles
  • Chui
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog tala1279
Altay.svg
A map of the Altai languages, including Telengit (in orange).

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

Classification

It is classified as a Siberian Turkic language. It is considered to be a dialect of the Southern Altai language, along with the Teleut and the literary varieties.

Dialects

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

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

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", Altay : ширдек, English: felt carpet. Also, in the roots of words, [ш] is used instead of [ч] (Telengit "тепчи", Altay : тепши, English: bowl). [3]

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. [4]

Ulagan Telengit alphabet [5]
абӷғдjийкқлмнҥоӧҧрстуӱчхшыэӓ

Another variant of the alphabet, similar to that of the Altai:[ citation needed ]

А аБ бВ вГ гД дЈ јЕ е
Ё ёЖ жЗ зИ иЙ йК кЛ л
М мН нҤ ҥО оӦ ӧП пР р
С сТ тУ уӰ ӱФ фХ хЦ ц
Ч чШ шЩ щЪ ъЫ ыЬ ьЭ э

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Теленгитский язык | Малые языки России". minlang.iling-ran.ru.
  2. "Теленгитский язык — все самое интересное на ПостНауке". postnauka.ru (in Russian).
  3. "Исследования по теленгитскому диалекту алтайского языка" (PDF) (in Russian). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-01-21.
  4. Тазранова 2021.
  5. Алмадакова 2017b, p. 39.

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