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Altai people

Altai people
Алтайлар (Altailar)
Алтай-кижи (Altai-kiji)

Top: Altai people in 1911.
Bottom: Altai people in the Altai Republic and neighboring areas
Total population
83,326
Regions with significant populations
 Russia 83,125[1]
 Mongolia and
 China		several thousand[2]
 Kazakhstan201[3]
Languages
Northern Altai, Southern Altai, Russian
Religion
up to 86%[4] "Altai Faith" (modern synthesis of Burkhanism, Shamanism, other indigenous religions),[5][6] other Russian Orthodoxy, Baptist Protestantism,[7] Tibetan Buddhism, and Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Kyrgyz, Teleuts, and other Turkic peoples, especially other Siberian Turkic peoples
Flag of the Altai Republic

The Altai people (Altay: Алтай-кижи, romanized: Altay-kiji, pronounced [ɑltɑj-kidʒi]), also the Altaians (Altay: Алтайлар, romanized: Altaylar, pronounced [ɑltɑjlɑr]), are a Turkic ethnic group of indigenous peoples of Siberia mainly living in the Altai Republic, Russia.[7][8] Several thousand of the Altaians also live in Mongolia (Altai Mountains) and China (Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang) but are not officially recognized as a distinct group[2] and listed under the name "Oirats" as a part of the Mongols, as well as in Kazakhstan where they number around 200.[9] For alternative ethnonyms see also Tele, Black Tatar, and Oirats. During the Northern Yuan dynasty, they were ruled in the administrative area known as Telengid Province.

  1. ^ "Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской Федерации". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Olson, James S. (1998). "Altai". An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 0-313-28853-4.
  3. ^ Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on statistics. 2009 CensusArchived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
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  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Tadina was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b Satlaev, F. A. (1994). "Алтайцы" [Altaians]. In Tishkov, Valery A. (ed.). Народы России: энциклопедия [Peoples of Russia: an Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Moscow: Great Russian Encyclopedia Pub. pp. 82–85. ISBN 5-85270-082-7.
  8. ^ Zhukovskaia, Natalia L. (2007) [1999]. "Алтайцы" [Altaians]. In L.M. Mints (ed.). Народы мира: Энциклопедия [Peoples of the World: an Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Moscow: OLMA Media Group. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-5-373-01057-3.
  9. ^ Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on statistics. 2009 CensusArchived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine

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