Telengit language

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Telengit
Телеҥит тилTeleñit til
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
alt_tal Talangit
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 dialect can be subdivided in to the following subdialects:

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

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]
абӷғдjийкқлмнҥоӧҧрстуӱчхшыэӓ

But the alphabet used is similar to that used in the Altaic language. [7] :[ 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. "Chui dialect". postnauka.ru (in Russian).
  4. "Исследования по теленгитскому диалекту алтайского языка" (PDF) (in Russian). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-01-21.
  5. Тазранова 2021.
  6. Алмадакова 2017b, p. 39.
  7. "Фрагмент текста записан А. Р. Тазрановой в 2018 году". postnauka.ru (in Russian).

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