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Urum is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand ethnic Greeks 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. [2] The Urum language is often considered a ...
It is considered by some a variety of Crimean Tatar . The name of the language comes from the word Rûm (Rome), which was the name used in the Muslim world for the Byzantine empire, and it was also used in the Ottoman Empire for non-Muslims. Urum has been written with the Greek alphabet, and between 1927 and 1937 it was written with a version ...
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The Urum language is often considered a variant of Crimean Tatar. Urum is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand ethnic Greeks 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 ...
Preliminaries/Giriş This chapter is devoted to Caucasian Urum, a language spoken in the highlands of K’vemo K’art’li in Georgia. The basic substrate of Caucasian Urum is Anatolian Turkish; Urum people are bilingual in Russian and the currently spoken language has a great amount of Russian loanwords, which hinders the mutual ...
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May 11, 2023 · Urum. Resource documentation for Urum [uˈrum]. Urum is a language spoken in both Ukraine, and Georgia by an estimated 190,000 (2000) speakers. It is a Turkic language with the specification of the language family being as follows: [Turkic → Common Turkic → Kipchak → West Kypchak]. Urum has two distinct dialects: Caucasian Urum (local to ...
In the Tsalka district, Urum people were also in contact with the Armenian population, which was the second largest minority in this area (see demographic data in Wheatley 2006: 8). In the afore-mentioned sociolinguistic study, 6 out of 30 persons (20%) report that they also use Armenian in contact with friends. 2.5.
