Teleut language
| Teleut | |
|---|---|
| Телеңет тили | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Kemerovo Oblast |
| Ethnicity | Teleuts |
Native speakers | 1,570 (2020)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Cyrillic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | tele1258 |
![]() A map of the Altai languages, including Teleut (in pink). | |
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 has officially recognized it as a distinct language.[4] It was the basis for the Altai literary language before 1917.
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:
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i y | ɯ u |
| Low | e ø | a o |
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 |
Notes and references
- ^ "Росстат — Всероссийская перепись населения 2020". rosstat.gov.ru. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
- ^ "Телеутский язык | Minority languages of Russia". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Телеутский язык — все самое интересное на ПостНауке". postnauka.org (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-02-23.
- ^ "Постановление Правительства РФ от 24.03.2000 N 255 "О Едином перечне коренных малочисленных народов Российской Федерации" (с изменениями и дополнениями) | ГАРАНТ". base.garant.ru. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
- ^ Novgorodov, Innokentiy N.; Gainutdinova, Albina F.; Ishkildina, Linara K.; Tokmashev, Denis M. (2018), Filchenko, Andrey; Anikina, Zhanna (eds.), "The Teleut Language is of the Kipchak Turkic Language Origin According to the Leipzig–Jakarta List", Linguistic and Cultural Studies: Traditions and Innovations, vol. 677, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 296–302, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67843-6_35, ISBN 978-3-319-67842-9, retrieved 2024-04-09
- ^ "Языки народов Сибири — Языки и культуры — Телеутский язык". lingsib.iea.ras.ru. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
- ^ Tokmashev, M. G.; Tokmashev, D. M. (2008). Telen︠g︡et tili =: Teleutskiĭ i︠a︡zyk (PDF). Kemerovo: Skif : Kuzbass. ISBN 978-5-85905-367-4.
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Sources
- (ru) Баскаков, Н.A., Диалект чернёвых татар (туба-кижи), Северные диалекты алтаиского (ойротского) языка, 2 volumes, Moscou, Nauka, 1965-1966.
See also
External links
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.
- (ru) Teleut on the Russian UNESCO website dedicated for Siberian languages

