Endangered Languages Project - Noghay

Noghay

^{[aka Nogai, Noghai, ногайский язык]}

Classification: Turkic

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Nogai, Noghai, ногайский язык, ногай тили, ногайша, Nogayca, Nogay Türkçesi, Nogay, Noghai, Noghaylar, Nogaitsy, Nogalar, Noqay dili
CLASSIFICATION		Turkic, Kipchak
ORTHOGRAPHY		Cyrillic script
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		nog
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Central Nogai White Nogai Black Nogai
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Europe and North Asia” (211-282) . Tapani Salminen (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~70,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1989

DOMAINS OF USE
TRANSMISSION

PLACES: Caucasia and Eastern Europe

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Caucasia, Southern Russia, Romania

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
46,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
52,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
According to various estimates, the Nogay population amounted from 60,000 to 80,000 in 1990. The presence and standing of the Nogays on their historical territories has decreased.

DATE OF INFO: 1970

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Scripts (Writing system): Cyrillic script

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
90,020
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
90,310
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
75,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"90,000 in Russian Federation (2002 census)."

MORE ON VITALITY

The number of speakers is decreasing.

PLACES: Uzbekistan; Kazakhstan; Russia; Ukraine; Romania;

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
67,806
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

46.3333333333,48.5

COORDINATES

43.8028,46.2744

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press