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ISO 639-3 · chvchv
Turkic family
Chuvash
Чăваш чĕлхи
Chuvash is a language of the Oghuric branch (Turkic), spoken in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Wikidata counts about 738,070 speakers (2024). Wikidata describes it as “Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
chv- ISO 639-1
cv- Glottocode
chuv1255- Family
- Turkic
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- UNESCO
- Definitely endangered
- Centre point
- 55.50, 47.00
- Wikipedia
- 121 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
4countries
2scripts
2levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Chuvash · Чăваш чĕлхи |
|---|---|
| Also called | Chuvash language, Çăvaşla |
| All speakers | 738,070 (2024) |
| Written in | Chuvash alphabet, Cyrillic |
| Grammatical cases | 1 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Definitely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Turkic to Chuvash
The branches above Chuvash, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Russia
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