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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060101025005/http://www.iassa.gl/newsletter/newss01.htm International Arctic Social Sciences Association, 2001] |
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* [http://lingsib.unesco.ru/en/languages/chelkan.shtml.htm The Chelkan Language] page of [http://lingsib.unesco.ru/en/ Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia] |
* [http://lingsib.unesco.ru/en/languages/chelkan.shtml.htm The Chelkan Language] page of [http://lingsib.unesco.ru/en/ Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia] |
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Altay |
The Chelkans (native name - Shalgan) are a small Turkic people living in southern Siberia. Those residing in Altai Republic are sometimes grouped together with the Altay ethnic group and those in Kemerovo Oblast are grouped with the Shors; however, they are recognized as a separate ethnic group by ethnographers. According to the 2010 census, there were 1,181 Chelkans in Russia.
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