Tatyana Gigel, First Deputy Chair of the State Assembly — El Kurultai, attended a ceremony marking Altai Language Day.
The event took place at the P. V. Kuchiyak National Drama Theatre and brought together government representatives, teachers, and figures from culture, science and the arts.
Gigel said preserving and developing the Altai language is a shared task and a priority of regional state policy.
She said the republic’s deputies are doing everything possible to preserve and develop the state Altai language. A state programme for its development has been adopted, and steps are being taken systematically to make the language more widely used.
More than 36 million rubles have been allocated for these aims in the republic’s 2026 budget.
Gigel thanked Altai language and literature teachers attending the II Republican Congress, as well as scientists, writers, journalists and artists.