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Encyclopedia > Gagauz language
Gagauz
Gagauz dili
Spoken in: Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Kazakhstan 
Region: Gagauzia
Total speakers: 150,000
Language family: Altaic[1] (controversial)
 Turkic
  Oghuz
   Turkish group
    Gagauz 
Official status
Official language of: Gagauzia
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: tut
ISO 639-3: gag
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

The Gagauz language (Gagauz dili) is a Turkic language, used by Gagauz people, official language of Gagauzia, Republic of Moldova. It is spoken by approximately 150,000 people. Capital Comrat Largest city Comrat Official languages Gagauz, Moldovan and Russian Government Governor Chairman of People Assembly Autonomous region of Moldova Gheorghi Tabunshik Stepan Esir Surface 1,832 km² 707 mi² Population 155,700 (2006) [1] Density 85/km² Creation April 23, 1994 Anthem Gagauziya Milli Marşı State religion Eastern... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Altaic is a proposed language family which includes 66 languages [1] spoken by about 348 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia and northeast Asia. ... Altaic is a putative language family which would include 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, mostly in and around central Asia. ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ... The Oghuz languages, a major branch of the Turkic language family, are spoken by more than 110-130 million people (including second language speakers) in an area spanning from the Balkans to China. ... Capital Comrat Largest city Comrat Official languages Gagauz, Moldovan and Russian Government Governor Chairman of People Assembly Autonomous region of Moldova Gheorghi Tabunshik Stepan Esir Surface 1,832 km² 707 mi² Population 155,700 (2006) [1] Density 85/km² Creation April 23, 1994 Anthem Gagauziya Milli Marşı State religion Eastern... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... Not to be confused with the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of the sounds of human speech. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... The Gagauz are a Turkic people minority of southern Moldova (in Gagauzia) and of southwestern Ukraine (in Budjak) that numbers around 250,000. ... Capital Comrat Largest city Comrat Official languages Gagauz, Moldovan and Russian Government Governor Chairman of People Assembly Autonomous region of Moldova Gheorghi Tabunshik Stepan Esir Surface 1,832 km² 707 mi² Population 155,700 (2006) [1] Density 85/km² Creation April 23, 1994 Anthem Gagauziya Milli Marşı State religion Eastern...


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. Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages—Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The modern Gagauz alphabet is a 32-letter Latin based alphabet modelled on the Turkish. ...

Contents

Alphabet

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

See also

Capital Comrat Largest city Comrat Official languages Gagauz, Moldovan and Russian Government Governor Chairman of People Assembly Autonomous region of Moldova Gheorghi Tabunshik Stepan Esir Surface 1,832 km² 707 mi² Population 155,700 (2006) [1] Density 85/km² Creation April 23, 1994 Anthem Gagauziya Milli Marşı State religion Eastern...

External Links

  • A Gagauz site "Ana Sözü"
  • A Gagauz song "Yaşa, Halkım!" by Andrey İVANOV
v • d • e
Altaic languages
Turkic languages • Mongolic languages • Tungusic languages • Buyeo languages*
Notes: *A hypothetical language family that includes Korean and the Japonic languages.
v • d • e
Turkic languages
Bolgar Bolgar† | Chuvash | Hunnic*† | Khazar†
Uyghur Old Turkic† | Aini²| Chagatay† | Ili Turki | Lop | Uyghur | Uzbek
Kypchak Baraba | Bashkir | Crimean Tatar¹ | Cuman† | Karachay-Balkar | Karaim | Karakalpak | Kazakh | Kipchak† | Krymchak | Kumyk | Nogai | Tatar | Urum¹|Altay | Kyrgyz
Oghuz Afshar | Azerbaijani | Crimean Tatar¹ | Gagauz | Khorasani Turkish | Ottoman Turkish† | Pecheneg† | Qashqai | Salar | Turkish | Turkmen | Urum¹
Khalaj Khalaj
Northeastern Chulym | Dolgan | Fuyü Gïrgïs | Khakas | Northern Altay | Shor | Tofa | Tuvan | Western Yugur | Sakha / Yakut
Notes: ¹Listed in more than one group, ²Mixed language, *Disputed, †Extinct

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Coming back to the Gagauz socio-linguistic model, it should be mentioned that despite the concessions received from the majority, the Gagauz identity remains confused because the majority of them continue to speak Russian instead of their native language.
Because the Gagauz autonomy leaders declared they were not going to participate in anticipated elections and expressed their disapproval with the central government, the last launched in February another campaign, aiming to demonstrate the incompetence of the Gagauz authorities.
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