Telengit language

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Telengit
Телеҥит тил
Native to	Russia
Region	Altai Republic
Ethnicity	Telengits
Native speakers	c. 3700
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kyrgyz–Kipchak [ru] Southern Altai Telengit
Dialects	Telengit-Teles Balyktuyul Kara-Kudyur Chibilin Saratan-Yazulin Saratan Yuzulin Cholushman Chibit Chui
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tala1279
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^[1]. It is widespread in the Kosh-Agach and Ulagan districts of the Altai Republic^[2].

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

Internal classification[edit]

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[edit]

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

Linguistic characteristics[edit]

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 Telengite and are found mainly in borrowings from the Russian language^[2].

Alphabet[edit]

An alphabet for the Ulagan dialect was proposed in 2016.^[4]

Another variant of the alphabet, similar to the Altai:

Notes and references[edit]

Sources[edit]

• [Baskakov 1965-1966] (ru) Н.A. Баскаков (2 volumes), « Диалект чернёвых татар (туба-кижи) », dans Северные диалекты алтаиского (ойротского) языка, Moscou, Nauka, 1965–1966
• Алмадакова, Н. Д. (2016). Язык теленгитов: очерки по фонетике и морфологии в сопоставительном аспекте (in Russian). Горно-Алтайск. Almadakova2016.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Алмадакова, Н. Д. (2017). "Система гласных фонем в тёлёсском (чолушманском) говоре улаганского диалекта теленгитского языка (в сопоставительном аспекте)". Полилингвиальность и транскультурные практики (in Russian). 14 (4): 556–570. doi:10.22363/2312-8011-2017-14-4-556-570. Almadakova2017a.
• [Almadakova 2017b] (ru) Н. Д. Алмадакова, « Фонетический строй диалектов алтайского языка и вопросы алфавита литературного алтайского языка », dans Актуальные вопросы современной филологии: теоретические проблемы и прикладные аспекты: Материалы международной научно-практической конференции. ІХ Багизбаевские чтения. ‒ Алматы, 28 апреля 2017, Алматы, Қазақ университеті, 2017 (ISBN 978-601-04-2350-3, lire en ligne), p. 37-40
• Алмадакова, Н. Д. (2018). "Долгий гласный [а] в именных словоформах тёлёсского говора улаганского диалекта теленгитского языка (в сопоставительном аспекте)" (PDF). Вестник НГУ. История, филология (in Russian). 17 (2): 99–114. doi:10.25205/1818-7919-2018-17-2-99-114.
• Тазранова, Алена (7 October 2021). "Теленгитский язык". ПостНаука (in Russian). Tazranova2021.

External links[edit]

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.^{[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]}