Chelkans: Difference between revisions

| languages = [[Northern Altai language|Northern Altai]], [[ChelkanlanguageChelkan_language|Chelkan]], [[Altai language|Altai]], [[Russian language|Russian]]

The Chelkans emerged from the mixing of Turkic clans with [[Ket people|Ket]], [[Samoyedic peoples|Samoyed]], and other [[Indigenous peoples of Siberia|native Siberian groups]]. This was a process that began as early as the period when the [[Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate|Yenisei Kygryz]] dominated the region. The Mongols then ruled over the region and people from the 13th to 18th centuries. The [[Dzungar Khanate|Dzungars]] then briefly controlled the area until the Chelkans (along with other [[Altai people|Altaians]]) submitted to the Russians.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the world's minorities|date=2005|publisher=Routledge|others=Skutsch, Carl., Ryle, Martin (J. Martin)|isbn=1-57958-392-X|location=New York|pages=82–83}}</ref>

The Chelkans speak the [[Chelkan language|Chelkan]] language sometimes classified as a [[dialect]] of Northern Altai. The language was counted as separate in the [[2002 Russian census|2002 Russian Census]] but not the [[2010 Russian census|2010 census]] which counted 2000 speakers, a writing system was developed in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Челканцы – АРКТИЧЕСКИЙ МНОГОЯЗЫЧНЫЙ ПОРТАЛ |url=https://arctic-megapedia.com/en/chelkans/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chelkan language and alphabet |url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/chelkan.htm |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=www.omniglot.com}}</ref>

The Chelkans were originally hunters.mainly Animalshunted livinglocal inanimals, the taiga were their main prey andwho were vital to the localtheir subsistence economylifestyle.<ref name=":0" /> Around the 19th century, the Chelkans took up picking [[Pine nut|cedar nutsnut]] picking as an additional economic activity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Altaics |url=https://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/altaics.shtml |access-date=2022-10-08 |website=www.eki.ee |publisher=[[The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire]]}}</ref>