Gagauz language
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| Gagauz Gagauz dili | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Kazakhstan | |
| Region: | Gagauzia | |
| Total speakers: | 150,000 | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] (controversial) Turkic Oghuz Turkish group Gagauz | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | Gagauzia | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | tut | |
| ISO 639-3: | gag | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Gagauz language (Gagauz dili) is a Turkic language, spoken by the Gagauz people, and the official language of Gagauzia, Republic of Moldova. It is spoken by approximately 150,000 people.
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[edit] Alphabet
Originally, it used the Greek script. Beginning in 1957, the Cyrillic alphabet was used. The current Gagauz script is a Latin-based alphabet, modelled after Turkish.
[edit] Cyrillic alphabet
| А а | Ä ä | Б б | В в | Г г | Д д | Е е | Ё ё |
| Ж ж | З з | И и | Й й | К к | Л л | М м | Н н |
| О о | Ö ö | П п | Р р | С с | Т т | У у | Ӱ ӱ |
| Ф ф | Х х | Ц ц | Ч ч | Ш ш | Щ щ | Ъ ъ | Ы ы |
| Ь ь | Э э | Ю ю | Я я |
[edit] Latin alphabet
| А а | Ä ä | B b | C c | Ç ç | D d | Е е | F f |
| G g | H h | I ı | İ i | J j | K k | L l | M m |
| N n | O o | Ö ö | Р р | R r | S s | Ş ş | T t |
| Ţ ţ | U u | Ü ü | V v | Y y | Z z |
[edit] References
[edit] Further reading
- Ulutaş, İsmail. 2004. Relative clauses in Gagauz syntax. Istanbul: Isis Press. ISBN 9754282838
[edit] See also
Gagauz language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
[edit] External links
- A Gagauz song "Yaşa, Halkım!" by Andrey İVANOV
- "A Concise Gagauz-English dictionary with etymologies and Azerbaijani and Turkmen cognates" by Andras Rajki
| Altaic languages |
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| Turkic languages • Mongolic languages • Tungusic languages • Japonic languages* • Korean language* |
| Notes: *Japonic and Korean are not generally recognized as belonging to the Altaic language family. See also Buyeo languages. |
| Turkic languages
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| Oghur | Bulgar† | Chuvash | Hunnic† | Khazar† | Turkic Avar† | ||
| Uyghur | Old Turkic† | Aini²| Chagatai† | Ili Turki | Lop | Uyghur | Uzbek | ||
| Kypchak | Altay | Baraba | Bashkir | Crimean Tatar¹ | Cuman† | Karachay-Balkar | Karaim | Karakalpak | Kazakh | Kipchak† | Krymchak | Kumyk | Kyrgyz | Nogai | Old Tatar† | Tatar | Urum¹ | ||
| Oghuz | Afshar | Azerbaijani | Crimean Tatar¹ | Gagauz | Khorasani Turkic | Ottoman Turkish† | Pecheneg† | Qashqai | Salar | Turkish | Turkmen | Urum¹ | ||
| Arghu | Khalaj | ||
| Northeastern | Chulym | Dolgan | Fuyü Gïrgïs | Khakas | Shor | Tofa | Tuvan | Western Yugur | Sakha/Yakut | ||
| Notes: ¹Listed in more than one group, ²Mixed language, ³Disputed, †Extinct | |||
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