Altai, Southern
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Cyrillic script, Old Church Slavonic variant
Aleksandr Ermanov, Wed, 2022-08-17 11:35
Regarding:
WritingISO 639-3:
altCyrillic script, Old Church Slavonic variant was used in some Christian books in Altai language in 1865 - 1868 in XIX century.
For example. Here is the book with some chapters of Gospel of John in Altai (Old Church Slavonic script was used here).
https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000011589/view/?#page=3
Another book:
https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000010818/view/?#page=8
Some those Christian books are mentioned in the list of literature (in Russian)
https://www.sbyads.ru/index.php/sbornik-yads/article/view/256
Editorial Action
We will add another Writing System (script) for Southern Altai [alt] as Cyrillic, Old Church Slavonic variant, no longer in use, experimental usage only. This information will be included in the next edition of the Ethnologue.