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Native Speakers Worldwide

<10,000

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UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<10,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

very few

Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

20,000

Non-monolingual speakers

all

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

Russia

Coordinates

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Location description

in the northeastern river valleys of the Altai region (Russian Altai), divided between the Altai (Gorno-Altai) Republic and Kemerovo Oblast, Russia

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

in the northeastern river valleys of the Altai region (Russian Altai), divided between the Altai (Gorno-Altai) Republic and Kemerovo Oblast, Russia

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Other languages used

Russian

Domains of other languages

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More on context

under increasing interference from Russian, the universal second language of the speakers

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

52.2816,87.4827

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,570

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Tubalars. Other Northern Altai speakers listed under Southern Altai [alt] in Census (2002). Ethnic population: 67,239 (including Southern Altai)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Russia;

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Location description

Gorno-Altai Ao mountains, Mongolia and China border

Government support

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Gorno-Altai Ao mountains, Mongolia and China border

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

29,098

Domains of Use

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  1. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  2. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  3. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  4. UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA
    Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
    http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html