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	Altay language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages.
		It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia.
		Two dialects of the Altay language are northern (with the Tuba, Kumandy, and Chalkan varieties named after the main tribes) and southern (with the Altai proper and Telengit varieties).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altay_language (134 words)

	Turkic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers.
		The Turkic languages are traditionally considered to be part of the Altaic language family.
		Geographically and linguistically, the languages of Southwestern, Northwestern, and Southeastern subgroup belong to the central Turkic languages, while the Northeastern, Bolgar and Khalaj languages are the so-called peripheral languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkic_languages (351 words)

	A Siberian Shaman's Version of Creation
		Altai way of the world cognition is reflected in Biliks(which mean 'wisdom', 'knowledge', cognition', 'science') The founders of Altai folk Biliks were ancient and medieval philosophers (ailatkyshi) such as Boor or story-tellers, as Nikolai Ulagashev, or Kams-shamans(yarlykchi) as Chabash or Chet-Challan and many others.
		In the third layer of the sky "Ak bulutuu teneri" (the sky of the white cloud) Altai Kudai- Ak- Burkhan (Altai God-White Burkhan) with the mediator Uch- Kurbustan reside.
		Altai people as a nation have never been and are not today people belonging to one race.
	www.whitewolfstar.net /siberia/creation.html (3133 words)

	Ethnologue: Russia, Asia
		Altai is used in the familiar sphere and with speakers of other Turkic varieties.
		Torgon is the basis of the literary language.
		Altai Krai, Khakass AO and Gorno-Altai AO, on the River Tomy.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/RusA.html (3296 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:ALT
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		Northern Altai and Southern Altai are not inherently intelligible, although there is a dialect continuum between them.
		Russian is used as the second language by all except older people as a contact language, for literature, and urban professional and cultural life.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ALT (151 words)

	East Asian Studies 210 Notes: Shor, Khakas, Tofalar
		The southern group is sometimes known as the Altai Kizhi (the word kizhi means "person" in Altai) after the largest of the four constituent groups; the remaining three are the Telengits, Telesy, and Teleuts).
		The above named tribal and clan divisions of the Altai are not important today due to the establishment of a common literary language and a common administrative territory, the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region.
		Before the arrival of the Russians in the 17th century, the Altai were under the influence of the Western Mongols (the true Kalmyk, or Oirats, who are the ancestors of the Kalmyks living in southernmost European Russia today).
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/Altai.htm (1810 words)

	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		The Altaic language is divided into two large groups: the southern group consists of the languages of the Altaics, Teleuts and Telengits, the northern group of the Kumandin and Chelkan languages.
		The northern dialects of Altaic are close to the Kondoma dialect of the Shor language.
		Altai is a very old centre for the art of metal working.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/altaics.shtml (1671 words)

	Nationalities in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Its language belongs to the Mongolian branch of the Altaic language family and is close to that of the Tu and Dongxiang ethnic minorities.
		Similar to the language of the Nu people, their neighbors, it does not have a written form and, traditionally, records were made and messages transmitted by engraving notches in wood and tying knots.
		The Mulam language is a member of the Zhuang-Dong language group of the Chinese-Tibetan language family, but because of extensive contacts with the majority Han and local Zhuangs many Mulams speak one or both of these languages in addition to their own.
	www.chinahighlights.com /travelguide/nationalities.htm (6870 words)

	Saving indigenous languages and cultures in Siberia
		Locals say her clients include even the president of the Altai Republic, a region where Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia collide and where, in the name of progress, Moscow has long tried to destroy native languages and customs like shamanism.
		The Altai language is dying there, and centuries-old beliefs and customs could disappear in the next decade.
		It is here that professors from Novosibirsk search for talented youngsters to study at their university, on the condition that they return to their mountain villages with their acquired skills, and pass them on in the language of the Altai.
	www.williams.edu /go/native/siberia.htm (863 words)

	Altai trekking:: Trekking and tours in Siberia, Siberia trekking, Trekking in Siberia, New Destination to Russia, ...
		This is a wonderful opportunity to observe practically all climatic zones of Altai: pine / deciduous forests, which form a narrow line along the Katun river valley, meadows with various herbs and flowers, taiga forests, Mongolian-type dead-wood forests of the Kuray hollow and snow and ice covered deserts of high mountain peaks.
		The name of the river - Katun, which means "the princess of Altai" in Altai language.
		This main waterway of Altai originates from a mountain of Belukha - the highest mountain of Siberia (4506m.), a Gebler glacier.
	www.nepalpathfinder.com /altai.php (1001 words)

	Cohen, Reverse Engineering
		The Altai court reasoned that interoperability-related features are indispensable to a program written for a particular computing environment, and so should be treated as scenes a faire for purposes of copyright.
		Although the Altai court set forth a rigorous, systematic method for identifying and excluding interoperability-related program elements, the test it devised does not appear to be rooted in a firm understanding of why those elements are unprotectable in the first place.
		Under Altai's scenes a faire approach to interoperability, as applied in Atari, Franklin would have no right to do so, because the interoperability-related routines necessary to run a particular application could not be considered virtually indispensable to any functioning operating system.
	www.law.cornell.edu /copyright/commentary/chn95t3.htm (4520 words)

	[Telektonon] ALTAI report.: J and L. Arguelles Reporting
		The land of Altai in the most remote heart of central Asia is locally referred to as Kin Altai,”Altai, the navel of the Earth,” and as the “Pearl of Siberia.
		In relation to history and pre-history, the Altai represents a non-opened treasury.’” Nicholas Roerich Arriving again at the border between the Autonomous Republic of Altai and Russia proper, there is a small gathering of vibrantly dressed women and a presence of media.
		One event was at the museum and house of Vera Fedorovna, a prominent lady whose memorabilia chronicles the history of Altai during the major part of the 20th century, including a poster of the Minister of Culture when she was a popular singer.
	www.photon.cc /pipermail/telektonon/2001-September/000007.html (21478 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		At this point it remains impossible to establish a causal relationship between language loss and the decline of reindeer herding as the principal economic activity of the area and the basis of 'Tofa' culture and identity.
		We can only state as fact that the language is in severe decline, and reindeer herding has been reduced to the activity of a single family with a herd of around 200 head of deer, down from 1,100 deer in 1977 and several thousand in the 1960s.
		It is one of the 1,782 languages with between 1,000 and 9,999 speakers (Crystal 2000: 15).
	www.ogmios.org /164.htm (5335 words)

	The Altai Mountains and the River Katun - Grigory Choros-Gurkin, Siberia [1915]
		Or an Altai woman, wearing the traditional chegedek, will canter past on a chubby piebald horse, with a clanking of metal ornaments in her plaits and on the saddle.
		However his protector, the regal Altai does not sleep, but stands on alert, listens to all the complaints of his sons, knows their inescapable misfortune.
		In deep midnight, when all is asleep, from the bowels and chest of the mighty Altai there escapes a heavy "groan."[6] Deep and rumbling like thunder, it races through the sleeping toi^a and echoes in the silver ripples of the fast-flowing Katun.
	www.mountainman.com.au /Choros-Gurkin.html (1648 words)

	Ken Hyder's Homepage
		Some of the groundwork was done on an earlier trip to the Altai with Tim Hodgkinson, Ken Hyder and the RTI Siberian field director, Eugene Kolbashev of Barnaul.
		The Altai language is Turkic, and like some neighbouring people, they have a form of throat-singing.
		The RTI tour of villages in the Altai mountains was conducted in three four-wheel drive vehicles with a lorry carrying the tents, and cooking facilities.
	www.hyder.demon.co.uk /radical.htm (668 words)

	Linguistic Perspectives on Endangered Languages - Abstracts
		Typically, in the language shift situation a dominant language is acquired perfectly, while the minority language is used less and less and is gradually forgotten: its vocabulary decreases, and the speakers have to insert into their speech words and phrases from the dominant language.
		Kusunda language is one of the endangered languages in Nepal.
		Firstly, it may be that the language of the terminal generation of speakers, that is, those speakers whose younger relatives have no command of their ancestral language, is not markedly different from the language of earlier generations.
	www.ling.helsinki.fi /sky/tapahtumat/el/endabs.htm (19286 words)

	Ensemble Uch Sume-R - Vol. I - Traditional songs of the Khakass and the Altai people - CD / cdRoots
		The Altai Republic is located in the vast Altai mountain range which extends into these three countries and therefore offers a beautiful panorama which extends into these gorgeous mountains.
		The Turkic peoples in Khakassia and in the Altai region were hunters and nomadic shepherds tending sheep, horses and sometimes camels.
		One of the most important forms of Khakass and Altai art is the narration of epics in a falsetto voice to the accompaniment of the two-string lute khomys (topshur).
	www.cdroots.com /face-038.html (700 words)

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		A language association has been formed, and a chair of Shor was formed at the Pedagogical Institute in Novokuzneck.
		Their language has an Oghuz Turkic base, has taken on a medieval Chaghatay Turkic stratum through Central Asian contacts and finally acquired a stratum of features from local languages.
		Uralic Tatar (110,000) is spoken by the Kerashen Tatar.
	www.verbix.com /xml/altaic.xml (2234 words)

	Resources on Altai academic institutions
		PERSPECTIVES ON THE UNREST IN THE ALTAI REGION OF THE USSR: PERSPECTIVES ON THE UNREST IN THE ALTAI REGION OF THE USSR.
		Saving indigenous languages and cultures in Siberia:...says his hands have cured the sick, and his mind's eye has found people who have disappeared in the remote valleys and rushing rivers of the Altai mountains.
		Kanas Lake: The lake, which is long and thin and 38 square km in area, is ringed by the Altai mountains, is a little-visited backwater in the vast melting pot that is...
	mongabay.org /conservation/Altai.htm (805 words)

	Sibirya
		Northern Altai and Southern Altai are not inherently intelli- gible, although there is a dialect continuum between them.
		Russian is used as the second language by all except older people as a contact language, for litera- ture, and urban professional and cultural life.
		Dolgan is the contact language on the Tajmyr Peninsula, and is spoken also by Evenki, Nganasan, and long-- term Russian residents.
	www.turkiye.net /sota/sibirya.html (421 words)

	Sacred Earth Network -- Newsletters - Spring 2003 - Issue 19 - Introducing "Uch Enmek" - Karakolsky Nature ...
		“Uch” in the Altai language means “three.” “Enmek” in Altai signifies the vulnerable, yet energetically important spot on the crown of a newborn child’s head.
		In this valley are signs of the sacred trinity everywhere: the synthesis of science, philosophy and religion; Buddhism, Christianity and Islam; the father, the son and the holy spirit; height, breadth and length; the sun the air and water; birth, life and death.
		The ancient culture and philosophy of the Altai speaks of this, and the cultures of the indigenous communities here are wholly focused on protecting this place of planetary importance.
	www.sacredearthnetwork.org /updates/newsletters/2003/spring_p2.cfm (672 words)

	Mongolian language resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Besides the Mongolian language, the Evenk language is written in the Mongolian script.
		Mongolian Branch of the Altaic Language Family Altai Mountains Lake Baikal Mongolian branch Languages belonging to the Mongolian branch of the Altaic family are spoken by...
		Mongolian is an Altaic language spoken by approximately 5 million people in Mongolia, China, Afghanistan and Russia.
	mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Mongolian.html (1332 words)

	Altai
		Reminiscent of Tibetan chanting, the throat singing is the principle way the oral cultural tradition of Altai is transmitted, accompanied always by the two-stringed Topshur.
		I found it interesting that in his essay "Altai," Nicholas Roerich was also concerned with sunspot cycles, cosmic radiation and their role in the coming planetary transformation, very much to the point of Dmitriev's research.
		This is a wind horse ceremony which involves the burning of the cedar, sprinkling melted butter into the fire, and circumambulation of a natural altar.
	www.tortuga.com /foundation/altai/altai2.html (5022 words)

	Bulgarians
		Bulgarian is a Uralo-Altai language under strong Indo-European influence.
		The historical and language proofs point that the Bulgarians are one of the oldest nations that have succeeded to survive to nowadays.
		They intermingle to some extent with the Slavic population that they have met on the Balkan Peninsula, but in opposite to the generally accepted notion they retain their language and their distinctive traits.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/europe/bulgaria.html (2440 words)

	Willkommen bei Adobe GoLive 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Altai Republic is located in the vast Altai mountain range which extends into these three countries and therefore a beautiful panorama of the courageous mountain.Üch Sümer is also well seen from the Kazakhstan side.
		One of the most important forms of Khakass and Altai art is the narration of epics in a falsetto voice to the accompaniment of the two-string lute khomys / topshur.
		The Khakass language belongs to the Uighur-Oguz group in the eastern Hun branch of the Turkic language and is an aggregation of different tribal languages (dialects).
	www.music.ch /face/catalog/uechsuemer_vol_1_songs.html (2903 words)

	SOUTHERN ALTAI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Spoken in the central and southwestern valleys of Altai (Gorno-Altai Republic), Russia.
		Source: "Gospel of Luke and Acts of Apostles in Altai Language", Institute for Bible Translation, Moscow 1999.
		Source: "Children's Bible in Altai Language", Institute for Bible Translation, Moscow 2002.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/JPN-altai-south.html (90 words)

	Altai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Katun´ run is a high water one similar to the Grand Canyon.
		Altai - Whitewater Rafting on Chuya and Katun River
		An exciting two-weeks hunting tour to the amazing mountains of the Altai Range in Southern Siberia.
	altai.in-russia.com /?SID=1&ID=707 (542 words)

	GeoNative - Altay - Altai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Russian and Altay names appear transliterated from their ciryllic scripts (Check the Alphabet Street section and this
		196,000 inhabitants, of which, less than 25% are native Altays, speakers of a Turkic language.
		In this republic Russian is the official language, but two languages (Altay and English!) have the status of "working languages".
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/altai.html (116 words)

	Brian Donahoe - Curriculum Vitae
		Spring 2003 and Fall 1996: Associate Instructor, "Language and Culture." Indiana University Department of Anthropology.
		“Mobility and the Maintenance of Language and Lifestyle Among the Tozhu-Tyva and Tofa Reindeer Herders.” Paper delivered as part of the panel session, The South-Siberian and Mongolian Reindeer Herding Complex: Endangered Lands, Languages, and Livelihoods in Comparative Perspective, at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C. Nov. 2001.
		Organizer and Chair for panel session, The South-Siberian and Mongolian Reindeer Herding Complex: Endangered Lands, Languages, and Livelihoods in Comparative Perspective, at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C. Feb. 2000.
	www.eth.mpg.de /people/donahoe/cv.html (423 words)

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