Language code: alt

Technical information about ISO 639 language code alt

The table below provides technical details for the Southern Altai language, designated by the alt code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

alt

Name

Southern Altai

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Altai ProperTelengitTeleut
Related languages
Northern AltaiKhakasShorTuvanKyrgyz
Key facts
Southern Altai is part of the Siberian branch of the Turkic language familyStandard Southern Altai is based on the Altai Proper dialectThe language’s rich oral tradition includes heroic epics such as 'Maadai-Kara'Its Cyrillic alphabet has extra letters like Ҥ ң, Ӧ ӧ and Ӱ ӱ not found in RussianSouthern Altai preserves vowel harmony and has no grammatical gender.
Sample phrase

Эрүүк, кандайсың?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Southern Altai language, identified by the code alt, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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