Gagauz language

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Gagauz
Gagauz dili
Spoken in: Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, 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. There are two dialects, Bulgar Gagauzi and Maritime Gagauzi. This is a different language than Balkan Gagauz Turkish [2]

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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

  1. ^ "[1] Ethnologue"
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[edit] Further reading

  • Ulutaş, İsmail. 2004. Relative clauses in Gagauz syntax. Istanbul: Isis Press. ISBN 9754282838

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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