Chelkan language

Chelkan
Kuu-Kizhi, Chalkan
куу, къуу, чалкъанду, шалкъанду
Native toRussia
RegionAltai Republic
EthnicityChelkans
Native speakers
648 (2021)[1]
Turkic
Cyrillic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologchel1242
A map of the Altai languages, including Chelkan (in red).

Chelkan (also Chalkan, Chalqandu) is a Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic in Russia by 648 Chelkans.