Key:name:alt

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name:alt
Description
A name in Southern Altai (a language written in Cyrillic). Use alt_name for an alternative name or old_name for a previously used one. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: names
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)may be used on relations
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Status: in use

A name in Southern Altai, used by 68,700 people in Altai Republic (map).

Note, most uses of this tag are tagging errors.
Use the alt_name=* tag to provide an alternative object name.
In German-language areas, this is sometimes used for old_name=* and should be replaced by that.
The Southern Altaic language is written in Cyrillic, so all other writings are tagging errors.

Note that this tag is useful when an object has names specified in more than one language:

  • If name=* is in Southern Altai then it specifies which language is used in the main name tag
  • If name=* is in a different language then it specifies the name in Southern Altai

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