Teleut is a moribund

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spoken in the

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. It is sometimes considered a dialect of Southern Altai, but also as its own language. Since 2000, the Russian government has officially recognized it as a distinct language. It was the basis for the Altai literary language before 1917.

Classification

The language is classed in the

Kipchak languages The Kipchak languages (also known as the Kypchak, Qypchaq, Qypshaq or the Northwestern Turkic languages) are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family spoken by approximately 30 million people in much of Central Asia and Eastern Europe, spanni ...

by Novgorodov et al (2018). 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: The current orthography of Teleut is as follows:

Notes and references

Sources

* (ru) Баскаков, Н.A., ''Диалект чернёвых татар (туба-кижи)'', Северные диалекты алтаиского (ойротского) языка, 2 volumes, Moscou, Nauka, 1965-1966.

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