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    The Altai people (Altay: Алтай-кижи, romanized: Altay-kiji, pronounced [ɑltɑj-kidʒi]), also the Altaians (Altay: Алтайлар, romanized: Altaylar, pronounced...
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    urbanized federal subject. The Altai Republic is one of Russia's ethnic republics, primarily representing the indigenous Altai people, a Turkic ethnic group that...
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  • a list of people with the given name or surname Altai people, an ethnic group Altai languages, the languages spoken by these people Altai, a historical...
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    49°N 89°E / 49°N 89°E / 49; 89 The Altai Mountains (/ɑːlˈtaɪ/), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain system in Central and East Asia, where...
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    Government or Confederated Republic of Altai was a republic created as an attempt to create an independent Altai. It lasted from 1918 to 1922, when it...
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    ethnic groups include the Altai people, Azerbaijanis, Chuvash people, Gagauz people, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz people, Turkmens, Turkish people, Tuvans, Uyghurs, Uzbeks...
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  • Altai Kai (stylized, АлтайКАЙ) is an Altai folk band from the Altai Republic of the Russian Federation, founded by Urmat Yntaev in 1997. Their band name...
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    Altai Krai (Russian: Алта́йский край, romanized: Altayskiy kray, [ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj]) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders clockwise from...
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    The Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Gorno-Altai ASSR; Russian: Горно-Алтайская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика,...
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    Golden Mountains of Altai is the name of an UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of the Altai and Katun Natural Reserves, Lake Teletskoye, Belukha Mountain...
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    Teleuts (redirect from Teleut people)
    language/dialect of Southern Altai language. In the Soviet years and until 2000, the authorities considered the Teleuts to be part of the Altai people. Currently, according...
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  • the Ohio River Valley) Tehuelche Thule people Tlingit Utes Yaghan Yahi Yanomami Yupik Adivasi Aeta Ainu Altai Andamanese Great Andamanese Jarawa Lodha...
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    Altai (Altay: Алтай тил, romanized: Altay til) is a set of Turkic languages spoken officially in the Altai Republic, Russia. The standard vocabulary is...
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    Siberia, specifically in or around the Altai Mountains, and is of Turkic origin. It has no relation to the Jewish people. Jew's harps may be categorized as...
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    Burkhanism (category Altai people)
    indigenist new religious movement that flourished among the Altai people of Russia's Altai Republic between 1904 and the 1930s. The Russian Empire was...
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    Telengits (category Altai people)
    group belonging to minor indigenous peoples. They mainly live on the territory of the Kosh-Agach district of the Altai Republic. Chinese chroniclers might...
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    known locally as the Princess of Ukok (Russian: Принце́сса Уко́ка), the Altai Princess (Russian: Алтайская принцесса), Devochka ("Girl") and Ochy-bala...
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    oblast') was an autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union, inhabited by the Altai people. Formed as the Oyrot Autonomous Oblast (Russian: Ойротская Автономная...
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    Yakuts (redirect from Yakut people)
    works in reference to the Sayano-Altai forest peoples. Vasily Radlov concluded that Doubo referred to the Samoyedic peoples. Doubo is additionally seen as...
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    Southern Altai and the Northern varieties are not fully mutually intelligible. Written Altai is based on Southern Altai, and is rejected by Northern Altai children...
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  • The Altai-Sayan region is an area of Inner Asia proximate to the Altai Mountains and the Sayan Mountains, near to where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan...
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    Uyghurs Altai people – classified as Mongols Fuyu Kyrgyz people – classified as Kyrgyz Gejia people – classified as Miao Bajia (八甲人; Bājiǎrén) Deng people Hu...
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    population of the Altai Republic. Although the local Altai people predominantly follow Burkhanism and Shamanism and Russian people follow Russian Orthodoxy...
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    Kumandins (redirect from Kuu people)
    Indigenous people of Siberia. They reside mainly in the Altai Krai and Altai Republic of the Russian Federation. They speak the Northern Altai Kumandin...
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  • Tubalars (redirect from Tuba people)
    The Tubalars are an ethnic subgroup of the Altaians native to the Altai Republic in Russia. According to the 2010 census, there were 1,965 Tubalars in...
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  • (кумандинцы): Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Kemerovo Oblast Chelkans (челканцы): Altai Republic Shorians (шорцы): Kemerovo Oblast, Republic of Khakassia, Altai Republic...
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    from his hands capable of ensnaring and burning his victims. To the Altai people, the Sun represented light, warmth, and growth. This made the sun deity...
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    Uriankhai (category Mongol peoples)
    forest peoples of the North, who include the Turkic-speaking Tuvans and Yakuts, while sometimes it is also applied to the Mongolian-speaking Altai Uriankhai...
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    his wife promised, and banishes his sisters-in-law. In a tale from the Altai people, collected in 1935 and published in 1937 with the Russian title "Боролдой-Мерген"...
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    Lake Teletskoye (category Lakes of the Altai Republic)
    romanized: Altın Köl, lit. 'Golden Lake') is the largest lake in the Altai Mountains and the Altai Republic, Russia, and has depth up to 325 meters. Situated at...
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