Teleut is a moribund[2] Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic in Russia.

It is sometimes considered a dialect of Southern Altai.

It was the basis for the Altai literary language before 1917.

[3] It is considered to be a dialect of Southern Altai, with the Telengit dialect or language and the literary form of Altai.

The current orthography of Teleut is as follows:[4] This article about a Turkic language or related topic is a stub.