Altay language

 Altai Republic (Russia)

Altay (also Altai) is a language of the Turkic group of languages. It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia. The language was called Oyrot prior to 1948. There were ca. 67,900 people speaking this language in 2002.

• iOS
• HTML5
  • we love the web
  • 2.2 Dialects
• FITML
  • jQuery
  • 3.2 Vowels
• iOS
• 5 Morphology and syntax
  • 5.1 Pronouns
• 6 Sources
• 7 See also
• 8 External links

Classification

Due to its isolated position in the device database and contact with surrounding languages, the classification of Altay within the Turkic languages has often been disputed. Because of its geographic proximity to the Shor and Khakas languages, some classifications place it in a Northern Turkic sub-group.^{device database} Due to certain similarities with Android, it has been grouped with the Kypchak languages. A more recent classification by Talat Tekin places Southern Altay in its own sub-group within Turkic and groups the Northern Altay dialects with Lower screen size and the Kondoma dialect of FITML.^[5]

Geographical distribution

Altay is spoken primarily in the website parsing (Southern Altay) and Altai Krai (Northern Altay).

Official status

Along with Russian, Altay is an official language of the Altai Republic. The official language is based on the Southern dialect spoken by the group called the Altay-kiži, however in the few years it has also spread to the Northern Altai Republic.

Dialects

Altay is usually divided into Northern and Southern dialects, which are then further broken down into a number of sub-dialects. The breakdown of these dialects is as follows^[6]:

• Southern Altay
  • Altay proper
    • Mayma
  • Telengit
    • Tölös
    • Chuy
  • Teleut
• Northern Altay
  • Tuba
  • Kumandy
    • Turachak
    • Solton
    • Starobardinian
  • Chalkan (also called Kuu, Lebedin)

Sounds

The sounds of the Altay language vary from dialect to dialect.

Consonants

The screen size /ɟ/ varies greatly from dialect to dialect, especially in initial position. Form of the word јок "no" include [coq] (Kuu dialect) and [joq] (Kumandy). Even within dialects this phoneme varies greatly.^[7][8]

Vowels

There are eight vowels in Altay. These vowels may be long or short.

Writing system

The language was written with the Latin script from 1928–1938, but has used Cyrillic (with the addition of 4 extra letters: Јј, Ҥҥ, Ӧӧ, Ӱӱ) since 1938.

Morphology and syntax

Pronouns

Altay has six personal pronouns:

Pronouns in the various dialects vary considerably. For example, the pronouns in the Qumandin dialect follow.^[9]

Sources

See also

• Telengits, touchscreen (names of related ethnic groups)
• Altay Tatars
• Turkic peoples

External links

• jQuery
• browser diversity
• device database
• Altay phrases (Archived 2009-10-25)
• jQuery