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Urum

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Also known as Urum language, Greek Tatar

Turkic language spoken in a few villages in Southeastern Ukraine

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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

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number of speakers, writers, or signers
185000
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Urum language
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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.

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