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Urum
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Turkic language spoken in a few villages in Southeastern Ukraine
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ uˈrum ]
- Native to
- Ukraine
- Ethnicity
- North Azovian Urums (Turkic-speaking Greeks)
- Native speakers
- (190,000 cited 2000)
- Language family
- Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Cuman Urum
- Writing system
- Cyrillic , Greek
- Recognised minority language in
- Ukraine
- Iso 639 3
- uum
- Glottolog
- urum1249
- Elp
- Urum
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Kipchak–Cuman
- Country
- Georgia (country)
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- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 185000
- topic's main category
- Category:Urum language
- indigenous to
- Shida Kartli
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- Commons category
- Urum language
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Urum (Урум, Ουρούμ) is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand Urums, an ethnic Greek population who inhabit a few villages in southeastern Ukraine. Over the past few generations, there has been a deviation from teaching children Urum to the more common languages of the region, leaving a fairly limited number of new speakers. The Urum language is often considered a variant of Crimean Tatar.
Name and etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Urum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.