Southern Altai

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Etymology

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Compare to Kazakh теңге (teñge), Uyghur تەڭگە (tengge), etc.

Noun

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тенке (tenke)

  1. coin
  2. ruble

References

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тенке”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN

L. T. Rjumina-Syrkaševa, editor (1995), “тенке”, in Teleutsko-russkij slovarʹ [Teleut–Russian Dictionary], Kemerovo: N. A. Kučigaševa, →ISBN