FromProto-Turkic*altmïĺ, but it seems to have merged withSalaraltı(“six”) in the Jiezi dialect which is spoken in Jishi, the county seat ofXunhua Salar Autonomous County. Oldest records and dialects pointa(t)mış ora(t)muş.
- (Jishi, Xunhua, Qinghai)IPA(key): /ɑltʰɨmɨʃ/(Formal)
- (Xunhua, Qinghai, Gansu)IPA(key): /ɑʰmɨʃ/,/ɑʰmuʃ/(Common speech)
- (Ili, Xinjiang)IPA(key): /atʰmiʃ/
altımış
- sixty
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- Yanchuk, Mikola Andriyovich (1893), “агмуш”, inЭтнографическое ОбозрѢніе: Императорскаго Общества Любителей Естествознанія, Антропологіи и Этнографіи [Ethnographical Review: Imperial Society of Lovers of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography][1] (in Russian), Moscow: Publication of the Ethnographic Department, pageагмуш
- Rockhill, William Woodville (1894), “hamish”, inDiary of a journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892, Washington: Smithsonian Institution,page hamish
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- 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985), “ahmuʃ”, in撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar][3], Beijing:民族出版社: 琴書店,→OCLC, page135
- Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “atmiş”, inAn Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[4], Tokyo: University of Tokyo,→ISBN, page47
- Dwyer, Arienne M. (2007), “a[h]muɕ”, inSalar: A Study in Inner Asian Language Contact Processes: Part I: Phonology[5], 1st edition, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag,→ISBN, page197
- Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “altimiš”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor,撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing,→ISBN, page12
- She, Xiu Cun (2015), “ɑ̥xmuɕ”, in撒拉语语音研究 [Kunlun academic Series: Salar Phonetic Research][6], China:上海大学出版社,→ISBN, page290
- 马伟 (Ma Wei);朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016), “altïmïš, atmïš”, in濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages - Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page296
