Teleut language

Teleut
Телеңет тили
Native to	Russia
Region	Kemerovo Oblast
Ethnicity	Teleuts
Native speakers	1,570 (2020)[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Southern Altai Teleut
Dialects	Kalmak? Bachat Tomsk
Writing system	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:

Teleut vowels^[6]

	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

1. "Росстат — Всероссийская перепись населения 2020". rosstat.gov.ru. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
2. "Телеутский язык | Minority languages of Russia". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
3. "Телеутский язык — все самое интересное на ПостНауке". postnauka.org (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-02-23.
4. "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.
5. 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
6. "Языки народов Сибири — Языки и культуры — Телеутский язык". lingsib.iea.ras.ru. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
7. Tokmashev, M. G.; Tokmashev, D. M. (2008). Telen︠g︡et tili =: Teleutskiĭ i︠a︡zyk (PDF). Kemerovo: Skif : Kuzbass. ISBN 978-5-85905-367-4.

Sources

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

See also

• Altai languages

External links

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.^{[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]}
• (ru) Teleut on the Russian UNESCO website dedicated for Siberian languages