Telengit

Facts

  • Language: Telengit
  • Alternate names: Telengut, Talangit
  • Language code: daltg
  • Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Kipchak, East Kipchak
  • Dialect of: Altai, Southern
  • Number of speakers: 3712
  • Script: Cyrillic script.

More information:

    Introduction

    Telengit is one of the least-studied of the Altay group of languages. Its status in relation to standard Altay is unclear.

    Baskakov (1958) lists two dialects:

    1. Tölös (spoken along the banks of the Čulyšman and Baškauz and along the shores of Teletskoe lake) and
    2. Čuy (spoken in the Čuy valley).
    Data here is from the Tölös variety.

    The Telengit Verb

    Verblists