Chuvash language facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Chuvash
Чӑвашла, Čăvašla
Native to	Russia
Region	Chuvashia and adjacent areas
Ethnicity	Chuvash
Native speakers	1.1 million  (2010 Russian Census 2010 census)e18
Language family	Turkic Oghur (Lir) Chuvash
Early forms:	Bulgar Chuvash
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in	Russia  Chuvashia
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Chuvash ([Чӑвашла, Čăvašla] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help);) is a Turkic language. It is spoken in Chuvashia, a part of central Russia. It is the only language from the Oghur branch of the Turkic languages that is still spoken today. Though many Turkic languages can be understood by different speakers, Chuvash is quite different.

Chuvash is written using the Cyrillic script. Its alphabet has all of the letters of the Russian alphabet and adds four letters of its own: Ӑ, Ӗ, Ҫ and Ӳ.

Images for kids

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  Stamp of the Soviet Union, Chuvash people, 1933

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  A possible scheme for the diachronic development of Chuvash vowels (note that not all the sounds with an asterisk are necessarily separate phonemes).

See also

In Spanish: Idioma chuvasio para niños