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Preferred term

altSouthern Altai  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Southern Altai (also known as Oirot, Oyrot, Altai) is a Turkic language spoken in the Gorno-Altai Ao mountains of Russia on the border of Mongolia and the People's Republic of China. There is no mutual intelligibility with Northern Altai. Written Altai is based on Southern Altai, but is rejected by Northern Altai children. Dialects include Altai Proper and Talangit.

Entry terms

  • Altai, Southern
  • Southern Altai language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • alt

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • alt

ISO 639-3 code

  • alt

Notation

  • alt

In other languages

  • altaï du Sud

    French

  • altai du Sud
  • Süd-Altaisch

    German

  • altai meridionale

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • altái meridional

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/alt

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