Gagauz language

Gagauz language

language
name=Gagauz
nativename=Gagauz dili
familycolor=Altaic
states=Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, and Kazakhstan
region=Gagauzia
speakers=150,000
fam1=Altaic [" [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90009] Ethnologue"] (controversial)
fam2=Turkic
fam3=Oghuz
fam4=Turkish group
nation=Gagauzia
iso2=tut|iso3=gag

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

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

Latin alphabet

References

Further reading

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

See also

* Gagauzia

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gag Ethnologue entry for Gagauz]
* [http://anasozu.com/songs/yasha_halkim.mp3 A Gagauz song "Yaşa, Halkım!" by Andrey İVANOV]
* [http://www.freeweb.hu/etymological "A Concise Gagauz-English dictionary with etymologies and Azerbaijani and Turkmen cognates" by Andras Rajki]
* [http://www.dialoghaber.com/article.turkdevlet.gagauz.gagauzgagauzca. News in Gagauz Language (latin)]


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