Teleut (Тэлэңгэт)

Teleut is a variety of Southern Altay, a Turkic language spoken by about 2,500 people in the Altai Republic in Western Siberia in the Russian Federation. The Teleut people call themselvesтэлэңэт (Telenget) orтэлэңут (Telengut), and are found mainly in the Shebalinskiy District of Altai Republic, the Chumyshskiy District of Altaiskiy Region, along the Sem River, and in Novosibirskaya Province and the south of Kemerovskaya Province (Gornaya Shoriya), and Bolshoy Bachat and Malyy Bachat Rivers (Bachat Teleut).

An orthography for Teleut using the Cyrillic alphabet was created by Altai missionaries in the 19th century. This was used to publish religious material and school books. The missionaries also described Teleut grammar and collected substantial lexical material. The language is taught in the school of Bekovo village.

Teleut alphabet and pronunciation

Download an alphabet chart for Teleut (Excel)

Sample of Teleut

Mother’s Words

Кöбöк, Кöбöк, кöл кечет,
Köbök, Köbök, is crossing the lake,

Кöмÿр аласы суу кечет.
Is crossing a charcoal(?) river.

Кöбöктең артык эр туулса,
If a man better than Köbök is born,

Теңис кечире мост салсын.
He will build a bridge across the ocean.

Myrat’s Reply

Эки ташты колтыктанып,
Holding two stones in my armpit,

Теңисти кечкен, Мырат мен!
I crossed the ocean, Myrat is my name!

Йаңыс ташты колтыктанып,
Holding one stone in my armpit,

Йайыкты кечкен, Мырат мен!
Crossed the Ural (River), Myrat is my name!

The beginning of Myrat-Piy’s song, Recorded by D.A. Funk on 30 August, 1992 in Shanda village from A.K. Alagyzova

Listen to this song

Source:http://lingsib.iea.ras.ru/en/languages/teleut.shtml

Information about Teleut |Numbers

Some information provided by Wolfgang Kuhl

Links

Information about the Teleut language and people
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Телеутское_наречие
http://lingsib.iea.ras.ru/en/languages/teleut.shtml
http://news.google.com/newspapers
http://melodynixon.com/Teleuts.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleuts
http://www.openaccess.hacettepe.edu.tr:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11655/3125/mikailcengiz_doktora_tezi.pdf

Turkic languages

Altay,Äynu,Azerbaijani,Baraba Tatar,Bashkir,Chagatai,Chelkan,Chulym,Chuvash,Crimean Tatar,Dolgan,Fuyu Kyrgyz,Gagauz,Ili Turki,Karachay-Balkar,Karaim,Karakalpak,Karamanli Turkish,Kazakh,Khakas,Khalaj,Khorasani Turkic,Krymchak,Kumandy,Kumyk,Kyrgyz,Lop,Nogai,Old Turkic,Qashqai,Romanian Tatar,Salar,Shor,Siberian Tatar,Soyot,Tatar,Teleut,Tofa,Turkish,Turkmen,Tuvan,Urum,Uyghur,Uzbek,Western Yugur,Yakut (Sakha)

Languages written with theCyrillic alphabet

Abaza,Abkhaz,Adyghe,Aghul,Akhvakh,Akkala Sámi,Aleut,Altay,Alyutor,Andi,Archi,Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian,Avar,Azeri,Bagvalal,Balkar,Baraba Tatar,Bashkir,Belarusian,Bezhta,Bosnian,Botlikh,Budukh,Bulgarian,Buryat,Chamalal,Chechen,Chelkan,Chukchi,Chulym,Chuvash,Crimean Tatar,Dargwa,Daur,Dolgan,Dungan,Enets,Erzya,Even,Evenki,Gagauz,Godoberi,Hinukh,Hunzib,Ingush,Interslavic,Itelmen,Juhuri,Kabardian,Kaitag,Kalderash Romani,Kalmyk,Karaim,Karakalpak,Karata,Karelian,Kazakh,Ket,Khakas,Khanty,Khinalug,Khorasani Turkic,Khwarshi,Kildin Sámi,Kili,Komi,Koryak,Krymchak,Kryts,Kubachi,Kumandy,Kumyk,Kurdish,Kyrgyz,Lak,Lezgi,Lingua Franca Nova,Lithuanian,Ludic,Macedonian,Mansi,Mari,Moksha,Moldovan,Mongolian,Montenegrin,Nanai,Negidal,Nenets,Nganasan,Nivkh,Nogai,Old Church Slavonic,Oroch,Orok,Ossetian,Pontic Greek,Romanian,Rushani,Russian,Rusyn,Rutul,Selkup,Serbian,Shor,Shughni,Siberian Tatar,Sirenik,Slovio,Soyot,Tabassaran,Tajik,Talysh,Tat,Tatar,Teleut,Ter Sámi,Tindi,Tofa,Tsakhur,Tsez,Tsudaqar,Turkmen,Tuvan,Ubykh,Udege,Udi,Udmurt,Ukrainian,Ulch,Urum,Uyghur,Uzbek,Veps,Votic,Wakhi,West Polesian,Xibe,Yaghnobi,Yakut,Yazghulami,Yukaghir (Northern / Tundra),Yukaghir (Southern / Kolyma),Yupik (Central Siberian)

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

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