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Chuvash | ||||
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Чӑвашла, Čăvašla | ||||
Pronunciation | [tɕəʋaʂˈla] | |||
Native to | Russia | |||
Region | Chuvashia and adjacent areas | |||
Ethnicity | Chuvash | |||
Native speakers | 1.1 million (2010 Russian Census 2010 census)e18 | |||
Language family |
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Bulgar
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Writing system | Cyrillic | |||
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Chuvash (Чӑвашла, Čăvašla; IPA: [tɕəʋaʂˈla]) is a Turkic language. It is spoken in Chuvashia, a part of central Russia. It is the only language from the Oghur branch of the Turkic languages that is still spoken today. Though many Turkic languages can be understood by different speakers, Chuvash is quite different.
Chuvash is written using the Cyrillic script. Its alphabet has all of the letters of the Russian alphabet and adds four letters of its own: Ӑ, Ӗ, Ҫ and Ӳ.
A possible scheme for the diachronic development of Chuvash vowels (note that not all the sounds with an asterisk are necessarily separate phonemes).