Teleuts are a Turkic people people living in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. The Turkic peoples are Eurasian peoples residing in northern central and western Eurasia who speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family Kemerovo Oblast (Ке́меровская о́бласть Kemerovskaya oblast) often called Kuzbass (ru Кузба́сс after the Kuznetsk Basin Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending [1] According to the 2002 census, there were 2650 Teleuts in Russia. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Their language is classified as a southern dialect within the group of dialects which is called Altay language. Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia. [2]