Kumyk language

Kumyk
къумукъ тил
qumuq tilقوموق تیل
Kumyk written in Cyrillic script, along with obsolete Latin and Perso-Arabic counterparts.
Native toNorth Caucasus
RegionDagestan, Chechnya, North Ossetia
EthnicityKumyks
Native speakers
520,000 (2020)
Turkic
Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic
Official status
Official language in
Dagestan (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-2kum
ISO 639-3kum
Glottologkumy1244
Share of the Kumyk population in areas of traditional residence in the Caucasus according to the 2010 census
Kumyk is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[1]
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Linguistic map of the Caucasus region: Kumyk is spoken in the dark blue area, numbered "25."
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Kumyk (къумукъ тил,[2] qumuq til,[3] قوموق تیل[4][5]) is a Turkic language spoken by about 520,000 people, mainly by the Kumyks, in the Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechen republics of the Russian Federation.[6] Until the 20th century Kumyk was the lingua franca of the Northern Caucasus.

  1. ^ "Kumyk in Russian Federation". UNESCO WAL. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  2. ^ L. S. Levitskaya, "Kumyk language", in Languages of the world. Turkic languages (1997). (in Russian)
  3. ^ Book review Retrieved 1 March 2023
  4. ^ Ногайские и Кумыкский тексты, 1883, М.-Э. Османов, СпБ
  5. ^ Татарская грамматика кавказского наречия / Сост. Т. Макаровым. - Тифлис : тип. Канцелярии наместника кавк., 1848
  6. ^ "Kumyksky yazyk | Malye yazyki Rossii" Кумыкский язык | Малые языки России [Kumyk language | Minor languages of Russia]. minlang.iling-ran.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-05-11.

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