| Kumandin | |
| Familycolor: | Altaic |
| Fam1: | Turkic |
| Ethnicity: | Kumandins |
| Nativename: | къуманды / къубанды / къуўанды / къувандыг |
| Speakers: | 654 |
| States: | Russia |
| Region: | Altai Republic, Altai Krai |
| Fam2: | Common Turkic |
| Fam3: | Siberian Turkic |
| Fam4: | South Siberian |
| Fam5: | Yenisei Turkic |
| Fam6: | Northern Altai |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Script: | Cyrillic, Latin (formerly) |
| Map: | File:Altay.svg |
| Mapcaption: | A map of the Altai languages, including Kumandin (in blue). |
| Date: | 2021 |
| Glotto: | kuma1284 |
| Ref: | [1] |
The Kumandin language is a Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic in Russia.The Kumandins name themselves "Kumandi-Kiji".
Kumandin is classed in the Siberian Turkic branch of the Turkic languages. It is considered as a dialect of Northern Altai. The Kumandin subgroup of the Altai can undertand Tubalar and Chelkan, aside from Kumandin.[2]
| Labial | Dental/Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Stop | plain | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| long | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Affricate | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Trill | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Front | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | ||
| High | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
During the Latinisation period in the Soviet Union, a Latin-based script was developed for the Kumandin language. It was used from 1932 to 1939, when teaching in Kumandin was stopped.[4]
| A a | B ʙ | C c | D d | E e | F f | G g | I i | |
| J j | K k | L l | M m | N n | Ꞑ ꞑ | O o | Ɵ ɵ | |
| P p | R r | S s | Ş ş | T t | U u | V v | X x | |
| Y y | Z z | Ƶ ƶ | Ь ь |
| А а | Б б | В в | Г г | Ғ ғ | Д д | Е е | Ё ё |
| Ж ж | З з | И и | Й й | К к | Л л | М м | Н н |
| Ҥ ҥ | Нь нь | О о | Ö ö | П п | Р р | С с | Т т |
| У у | Ӱ ӱ | Ф ф | Х х | Ц ц | Ч ч | Ш ш | Щ щ |
| Ъ ъ | Ы ы | Ь ь | Э э | Ю ю | Я я |