• Southern Altai (also known as Oirot, Oyrot, Altai and Altai proper) is a Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic, a federal subject of Russia located in Southern Siberia...
  • The Altai region is a complex territorial entity that has absorbed the western regions of the Altai-Sayan Mountains and the southern areas of the West Siberian Plain.
  • The Southern Altai Ridge, in turn, passes to the south into the Tarbagatai North Ridge with a height of 2200 - 3000 meters above sea level and the Sarytau Ridge.
  • Southern Altai, part of the Turkic language family, is spoken by approximately 70,000 people in the Altai Republic of Russia.
  • in the central and southwestern river valleys of the Altai region (Russian Altai), mainly within the Altai (Gorno-Altai) Republic, southern Siberia.
  • The rivers Kara-Koba and Arasan-Koba flow here, which originate in the southern Altai ridge. There are 116 km of glaciers on the South Altai Ridge.
  • Comment: Southern Altai (3044-alt) = Threatened (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available).
  • It is closely related to the other Turkic languages, such as Turkish, Uzbek and Kazakh. The Southern Altai language is written in a Latin-based alphabet.
  • Southern Altai is a Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic, a federal subject of Russia located in Southern Siberia on the border with Mongolia and China.