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Nogai | |
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ногай тили, ногайша (nogay tili, nogayşa) | |
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Native to | Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan |
Region | Caucasus |
Ethnicity | 108,000 Nogais (2020 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 86,000 (2020 census)[1] |
Turkic
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Cyrillic, Latin[2] | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | nog |
ISO 639-3 | nog |
Glottolog | noga1249 |
ELP | Noghay |
Alabugat Tatar[3] | |
![]() Nogai is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[4] |
Nogai (/noʊˈɡaɪ/ noh-GHY; Ногай тили, Nogay tili, Ногайша, Nogayşa) also known as Noğay, Noghay, Nogay, or Nogai Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken in Southeastern European Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. It is the ancestral language of the Nogais. As a member of the Kipchak branch, it is closely related to Kazakh, Karakalpak and Crimean Tatar. In 2014 the first Nogai novel (Akşa Nenem) was published, written in the Latin alphabet.[5]