Chuvash
Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas
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Summary
Chuvash is a natural language[1]. Chuvash draws 4,171 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #116 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Chuvashia[3], Moscow[4], Tatarstan[5], Bashkortostan[6], Samara Oblast[7], Ulyanovsk Oblast[8], Saratov Oblast[9], Krasnoyarsk Krai[10], Orenburg Oblast[11]
- Country: Russia[12], Ukraine[13], Kazakhstan[14], Uzbekistan[15]
- Instance of: modern language[16]
- Follows: Bulgar[17]
- Subclass of: Oghuric[18], Turkic[19]
- Writing system: Chuvash alphabet[20], Cyrillic script[21]
- Commons category: Chuvash language[22]
- Wikimedia language code: cv[23]
- Has part(s): Viryal Chuvash[24]
- Topic's main category: Category:Chuvash language[25]
- Described at URL: https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=chu[26]
- Language regulatory body: Chuvash State Institute of Human Sciences[27]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1,000,000[28], 1,279,650[29], 738,070[30]
- Native label: Чăваш чĕлхи[31]
- Short name: чувашский[32], чуваська[33], чӑвашла[34], чувашаг[35]
- UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[36]
- Indigenous to: Chuvashia[37]
- Female form of label: la langue tchouvache[38]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CHV[39]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q25554715[40]
- Has grammatical case: abessive case[41]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[42]
- Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[43]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Ukraine[44]
- Entry in abbreviations table: чуваш.[45]
Why It Matters
Chuvash has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] Chuvash is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]