ON THE ISSUE OF THE TELENGIT DIALECT OF THE ALTAI LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article considers problems of the Telengit dialect of the Altai language. It traditionally belongs to the southern group of dialects of the Altai language. At present, the dialects are now more and more beginning to approaches to the literary norm, and the process of alignment of dialectal features is accelerating. Speakers of the Telengit dialect mostly live in the southeastern part of the Altai Republic and are classified as indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation. The purpose of this article is to generalize the already existing results of the research, to review the linguistic and contemporary extra-linguistic factors in the development of the Telengit language. As a result of the generalized analysis of the phonetic, grammatical and lexical features of the Telengit dialect in comparison with the literary Altai language, the author concludes that despite the process of unification of the Altai dialects, the Telengit dialect still preserves its specific features. These specific features require further research.