- Dolgan language
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Dolgan Дулҕан Dulğan, Һака Haka Spoken in Russia Region Krasnoyarsk Krai Ethnicity Dolgans Native speakers ~5,000 Language family Turkic- Siberian Turkic
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- Dolgan
- Northern
Language codes ISO 639-3 dlg 
Sakha (dark blue) and Dolgan (blue)The Dolgan language is a Turkic language with around 5,000 speakers, spoken in the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. Its speakers are known as the Dolgans.
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Classification
Dolgan is a member of the Northern Turkic family of languages, within which its closest relative is Sakha (Yakut). Like Finnish, Hungarian, and Turkish, Dolgan has vowel harmony, is agglutinative, and has no grammatical gender. Word order is usually subject–object–verb.
See also
Further reading
- Stachowski, M.: Dolganischer Wortschatz, Kraków 1993 (+ Dolganischer Wortschatz. Supplementband, Kraków 1998).
- Stachowski, M.: Dolganische Wortbildung, Kraków 1997.
References
Turkic languages Italics indicate extinct languages Oghur Uyghuric Kypchak Oghuz Afshar · Azerbaijani · Crimean Tatar · Gagauz · Balkan Gagauz Turkish · Khorasani Turkic · Old Anatolian Turkish · Ottoman Turkish · Pecheneg 3 · Qashqai · Salar · Turkish · Turkmen · UrumArghu Siberian 1 Mixed language. 2 Also Oghuz. 3 Classification disputed. State languages of Russia Federal language Languages of federal subjects Abaza · Adyghe · Agul · Southern Altai · Avar · Azerbaijani · Bashkir · Buryat · Chechen · Chuvash · Dargwa · Erzya · Ingush · Kabardian · Kalmyk · Karachay-Balkar · Khakas · Komi · Kumyk · Lak · Lezgian · Mari · Moksha · Nogai · Ossetic · Rutul · Sakha · Tabasaran · Tat · Tatar · Tsakhur · Tuvan · UdmurtLanguages with official status Categories:- Agglutinative languages
- Turkic languages
- Languages of Russia
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Siberian Turkic
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