Gagauz language

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`
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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]

1 Alphabet
- 1.1 Cyrillic alphabet
- 1.2 Latin alphabet
2 References
3 Further reading
4 See also
5 External links

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.

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

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

References

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

External links

Gagauz language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

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v • d • e Altaic languages

Turkic languages · Mongolic languages · Tungusic languages · Japonic languages* · Korean language*

Notes: *Japonic and Korean are not always recognized as belonging to the Altaic language family. See also Buyeo languages.

v • d • e Turkic languages

Oghur	Bulgar† · Chuvash · Hunnic† · Khazar† · Turkic Avar†

Southeastern	Old Turkic† · Aini² · Chagatai† · Ili Turki · Lop · Uyghur · Uzbek

Kypchak	Altay · Baraba · Bashkir · Crimean Tatar¹ · Cuman† · Karachay-Balkar · Karaim · Karakalpak · Kazakh · Kipchak† · Krymchak · Kumyk · Kyrgyz · Nogai · Old Tatar† · Tatar · Urum¹

Oghuz	Afshar · Azerbaijani · Crimean Tatar¹ · Gagauz · Balkan Gagauz Turkish · Khorasani Turkic · Ottoman Turkish† · Pecheneg†³ · Qashqai · Salar · Turkish · Turkmen · Urum¹

Arghu	Khalaj

Northeastern	Chulym · Dolgan · Fuyü Gïrgïs · Khakas · Shor · Tofa · Tuvan · Western Yugur · Sakha/Yakut

Notes: ¹Listed in more than one group, ²Mixed language, ³Disputed, †Extinct