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Northern Altai language

Topic: Social

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Northern Altai
тÿндÿк алтай тили, tündük altay tili
Native toRussia
RegionAltai Republic
Altai Krai
Native speakers
57,000 speakers (2010)e25
Turkic
  • Common Turkic
    • Siberian Turkic
      • South Siberian
        • Yenisei Turkic
          • Northern Altai
Dialects
  • Kumandy
  • Chelkan
  • Tubalar?
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3atv
Glottolognort2686[1]
Map showing the locations of the Northern and Southern Altai varieties in Russia
Map showing the locations of the Northern and Southern Altai varieties in Russia

Northern Altai or Northern Altay is the several tribal Turkic dialects spoken in the Altai Republic of Russia .[2] Though traditionally considered one language, Southern Altai and the Northern varieties are not fully mutually intelligible. Written Altai is based on Southern Altai, and is rejected by Northern Altai children.[3]

Northern Altai is written in Cyrillic. In 2006, in the Altay kray, an alphabet was created for the Kumandin variety.[4]

Phonology

Northern Altai has 8 vowels, which may be long or short, and 20 consonants, plus marginal consonants that occur only in loan words.[5]

Vowels

Northern Altai vowels
Front Back
High i   y ɯ   u
Low e   ø a   o

Consonants

Northern Altai consonants
Labial Alveolar Post-alveloar Velar Uvular
Plosive p   b t   d c   dʒ k   ɡ q
Affricate ts[lower-alpha 1]
Fricative f   v s   z ʃ   ʒ x[lower-alpha 1]   ɣ
Nasal m n ŋ
Trill r
Approximant l j
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Phoneme occurs only in Russian loanwords.

Demographics

According to data from the 2002 Russian Census, 65,534 people in Russia stated that they have command of the Altay language.[6] Only around 10% of them speak Northern Altay varieties, while the remaining speak Southern Altay varieties. Furthermore, according to some data, only 2% of Altays fluently speak the Altay language.[7]

Varieties

Northern Altay consists of the following varieties:

  • Kumandy dialect [ru; tr; tt; tr; Kumandıca; tt; Куманды теле] (also Qubandy/Quwandy). 1,862 Kumandins claim to know their national language,[8] but 1,044 people were registered as knowing Kumandy.[9] Kumandy has the following three sub-varieties:[10]
    • Turačak
    • Solton
    • Starobardinian
  • Chelkan dialect [ru; pt; Челканское наречие; pt; Língua chelkan] (also Kuu/Quu, Chalkandu/Shalkanduu, Lebedin). 466 Chelkans claim to speak their national language, and 539 people in all claim to know Chelkan.

The Tubalar language [ru; tr; Тубаларский язык; tr; Tuba Türkçesi] (also known as Tuba language), is also often ascribed to belong to the Northern Altai group, but its relation to other languages is dubious and it may belong to Kipchak languages.[11] 408 Tubalars claim to know their national language, and 436 people in all reported knowing Tuba.

Closely related to the northern varieties of Altay are the Kondoma dialect [ru; tr; Кондомское шорское наречие; tr; Kоndоm Şor ağzı] of the Shor language and the Lower Chulym dialect [ru; tr; Нижнечулымское наречие; tr; Aşağı Çulım ağzı] of the Chulym language.[11]

Linguistic features

The following features refer to the outcome of commonly used Turkic isoglosses in Northern Altay.[12][13][14]

  • */ag/ — Proto-Turkic */ag/ is found in three variations throughout Northern Altay: /u/, /aw/, /aʁ/
  • */eb/ — Proto-Turkic */eb/ is found as either /yj/ or /yg/, depending on the variety
  • */VdV/ — With a few lexical exceptions (likely borrowings), proto-Turkic intervocalic */d/ results in /j/.

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Northern Altai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nort2686. 
  2. ↑ "Northern Altai". ELP Endangered Languages Project. http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3869. 
  3. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named e25
  4. ↑ В Алтайском крае издана азбука кумандинского языка. 2006
  5. ↑ Baskakov, N.A. (1997). "Altaysky yazyk". in Institut Jazykoznanija. Tyurkskie yazyki. Jazyki mira / Rossijskaja Akademija Nauk, Institut Jazykoznanija. [Glav. red. koll.: V. N. Jarceva (otv. red.) ...]. Biškek: Kyrgyzstan. ISBN 978-5-655-01214-1. OCLC 42579926. 
  6. ↑ Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года. Том 13. «Коренные малочисленные народы Российской Федерации»
  7. ↑ Энциклопедия «Кругосвет»
  8. ↑ Russian census figures
  9. ↑ Russian census figures
  10. ↑ BASKAKOV, N. A. (1958). "LA CLASSIFICATION DES DIALECTES DE LA LANGUE TURQUE D'ALTAÏ". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 8 (1): 9–15. ISSN 0001-6446. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23682215. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Tubalarskie ėti︠u︡dy. Tatevosov, S. G. (Sergeĭ Georgievich), Татевосов, С. Г. (Сергей Георгиевич), Moskovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova. Filologicheskiĭ fakulʹtet., Московский государственный университет им. М.В. Ломоносова. Филологический факультет.. Moskva: IMLI RAN. 2009. ISBN 9785920803504. OCLC 613983309. 
  12. ↑ Baskakov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1966). Диалект Черневых Татар (Туба-Кижи): грамматический очерк и словарь.. Moscow: Наука. 
  13. ↑ Baskakov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1972). Диалект Кумандинцев (Куманды-Кижи): грамматический очерк, тексты, переводы и словарь.. Москва: Наука. 
  14. ↑ Baskakov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1985). Диалект Лебединских Татар-Чалканцев (Куу-Кижи). Москва: Наука. 



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