Not to be confused with the Chuvan or the Chumash languages.
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Chuvash
Çăvaşla
Чӑвашла
Pronunciation
[tɕəʋaʃˈla]
Native to
Russia
Region
Volga region (esp. Chuvashia)
Ethnicity
1.05 million Chuvash (2020 census)[1]
Native speakers
740,000 (2020 census)[1]
Language family
Turkic
Oghuric
Chuvash
Writing system
Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in
Chuvashia (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-1
cv
ISO 639-2
chv
ISO 639-3
chv
Glottolog
chuv1255
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Chuvash (UK: /ˈtʃuːvɑːʃ/CHOO-vahsh,[2]US: /tʃʊˈvɑːʃ/chuu-VAHSH;[3]Чӑвашла, translit.Çăvaşla, IPA:[tɕəʋaʃˈla])[a] is a Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages, one of the two principal branches of the Turkic family.[4]
The writing system for the Chuvash language is based on the Cyrillic script, employing all of the letters used in the Russian alphabet and adding four letters of its own: Ӑ, Ӗ, Ҫ and Ӳ.
^ abChuvash at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
^"Chuvash". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020.
^"Chuvash". Lexico UK English Dictionary US English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020.
^[1] Chuvash is the sole living representative of the Bulgharic branch, one of the two principal branches of the Turkic family.
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Chuvash (UK: /ˈtʃuːvɑːʃ/ CHOO-vahsh, US: /tʃʊˈvɑːʃ/ chuu-VAHSH; Чӑвашла, translit. Çăvaşla, IPA: [tɕəʋaʃˈla]) is a Turkic language spoken in European Russia...
although Chuvash communities may be found throughout the Russian Federation. They speak Chuvash, a Turkic language that diverged from other languages in the...
Chuvash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chuvash may refer to: Chuvash people Chuvashlanguage Chuvashia (Chuvash Republic), within Russia Chuvash...
Chuvashia (Russian: Чувашия; Chuvash: Чӑваш Ен, romanized: Çăvaš Jen), officially the Chuvash Republic — Chuvashia, is a republic of Russia located in...
the Chuvashlanguage. The first to branch off from the Turkic family, the Oghuric languages show significant divergence from other Turkic languages, which...
by the modern Chuvashlanguage. Other than Chuvash, Bulgar is the only language to be definitively classified as an Oghur Turkic language. The inclusion...
a significant distinction of the Chuvashlanguage from other Turkic languages. According to him, the Chuvashlanguage does not share certain common characteristics...
Chuvash nationalism or the Chuvash national movement (Chuvash: Чӑваш наци юмӑхӗ) is the belief that the Chuvash people constitute a nation, as well as...
The Chuvash Wikipedia (Chuvash: Чӑваш Википедийӗ) is the Chuvashlanguage edition of Wikipedia. It was founded on November 22, 2004. Its 50,000th article...
language. The Chuvashlanguage today is the only Oghuric language that survived and it is the sole living representative of the Volga Bulgar language...
Cheboksary (/ˌtʃɛbɒkˈsɛəri/; Russian: Чебокса́ры, IPA: [tɕɪbɐˈksarɨ]; Chuvash: Шупашкар, romanized: Šupaškar) is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia...
or Oghuric languages are a branch of the Turkic languages. Some scholars suggest Hunnic had strong ties with Bulgar and to modern Chuvash and refer to...
while Chuvash recorded only 1,042,989 speakers in 2010, a 21.6% drop from 2002. This is attributed to a gradual phasing out of indigenous language teaching...
Chuvash State Pedagogical University (I. Ya. Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University, Chuvash: И. Я. Яковлев ячĕллĕ Чӑваш патшалӑх педагогика университечӗ)...
Vattisen Yaly (Chuvash: Ваттисен йӑли, Ancestral traditions) is a contemporary revival of the ethnic religion of the Chuvash people, a Turkic ethnicity...
cognates in numerous Turkic languages, such as Uzbek (qirqin 'bondwoman'), Bashkir, Tatar, Kyrgyz (кыз-кыркын 'girls'), Chuvash (хӑрхӑм), Turkmen (gyrnak)...
in some tenses with the Chuvashlanguage, on which linguists also rely in the study and reconstruction of the Khazar language. Azerbaijani phonotactics...
ابراهیم وفا, Moscow, Russia — Iran) finalist, 2nd place — Alexei Fad (Chuvash: Алекҫей Фад, Roman Fad's father; died in 2009; Cheboksary, Chuvashia,...
it as Itil or Atil. In modern Turkic languages, the Volga is known as İdel (Идел) in Tatar, Atăl (Атӑл) in Chuvash, Iźel in Bashkir, Edıl in Kazakh, and...
carbonated. Ayran (cf. airag in Mongolian: 'mare milk', uyran (уйран) in Chuvash: 'buttermilk') is mentioned in Mahmud al-Kashgari's 11th century Dīwān...
Tsarmys are also found, as well as Tatar: Чирмеш, romanized: Çirmeş; and Chuvash: Ҫармӑс, Śarmăs before the Russian Revolution. The term Mari comes from...
Latvian: Maskava, Bashkir: Мәскәү, Tatar: Mäskäw, Portuguese: Moscovo, Chuvash: Мускав, and Spanish: Moscú. In a similar manner the Latin name Moscovia...
The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Chuvash: Чӑваш Автономлӑ Совет Социаллӑ Республики, romanized: Chăwash Avtonomlă Sovet Sociallă Respubliki;...
Khakassia, Tuva and other Turkic nations in Siberia. Altaian Burkhanism and Chuvash Vattisen Yaly are contemporary movements similar to Tengrism. The term...
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