Southern Altaihttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Southern_Altai (alt), and related request from 2015 for Northern Altaihttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Northern_Altai (atv): Altai is spoken by about 55,000 people. Southern Altai is the official language of the Altai Republic, and is the basis for the written language. Test has about 100 pages. There seems to be little doubt Southern Altai should be eligible. I do wonder about Northern Altai, though. It's the official language of Altai Krai, its test has about 30 pages, and it's apparently not fully mutually intelligible with Southern Altai. Amir, do you know anything about these? I will mark Southern Altai eligible immediately; I will wait a few days for comments, but then will probably mark Northern Altai eligible, too.

Teri Samihttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Ter_Sami (sjt): Similar argument to Kildin Sami from previous set, though the enwiki article now says that there are two speakers left. There are about 20 pages in the test. Marking as eligible.

Ingrian https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Ingrian (izh): Also similar argument to Kildin Sami. (Someone must have done a spurt of languages from Russia back then.) About 100 test pages. Eligible.

Once these three requests have been taken care of, all requests dating back to 2011 or earlier will have been addressed except for Balochihttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Balochi and Eastern Balochihttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Eastern_Balochi. The last I recall, Satdeep was looking into that situation, and I am leaving it in his hands.

Steven

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