Chuvash language

Chuvash
Chuvash
Чӑвашла, Čăvašla
Pronunciation	[tɕəʋaʂˈla]
Native to	Russia
Region	Chuvashia and adjacent areas
Ethnicity	Chuvash
Native speakers	1.1 million (2010 census)e18
Language family	Turkic Oghur (Lir) Chuvash; ;
Early forms:	Bulgar Chuvash;
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in	Russia Chuvashia;
Language codes
ISO 639-1	cv
ISO 639-2	chv
ISO 639-3	chv
	This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.
	This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.

Chuvash (Чӑвашла, Čăvašla; IPA: [tɕəʋaʂˈla])^[1] 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.

Chuvash Language Media

The initial alphabet of Ivan Yakovlev, with 47 letters.
Yakovlev's revised alphabet
Chuvash 1873 alphabet in cursive.
A possible scheme for the diachronic development of Chuvash vowels^[source?] (note that not all the sounds with an asterisk are necessarily separate phonemes).

References

↑ also known as Chăvash, Chuwash, Chovash, Chavash, Çuvaş or Çuaş

Other websites

This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Chuvash language edition.

[1] so known as Chăvash, Chuwash, Chovash, Chavash, Çuvaş or Çuaş

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