Teleut language

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Teleut
Тадар, Тэлэңгэт, Пайат
Native to	Russia
Region	Kemerovo Oblast
Ethnicity	Teleuts
Native speakers	1570 (2020)[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Southern Altai Teleut
Dialects	Kalmak?
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tele1258
A map of the Altai languages, including Teleut (in pink).

Teleut is a moribund^[2] Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic in Russia. It is sometimes considered a dialect of Southern Altai. It was the basis for the Altai literary language before 1917.