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Kumyk (Qumuq tili, Qumuqça or Qumuq (alternative spelling: Kumuk tili, Kumukça)) (??????? ????) is a Turkic language
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
, spoken by about 365,000 speakers (the Kumyks
Kumyks

Kumyks are a Turkic people occupying the Kumyk plateau in north Dagestan and south Terek, and the lands bordering the Caspian Sea. They comprise 14% of the population of the Russian republic of Dagestan....
) in the Dagestan
Dagestan

The Republic of Dagestan , older spelling Daghestan, is a federal subjects of Russia of the Russia ....
 republic of Russian Federation.

Yirçi Qazaq (born 1839) is usually considered to be a founder of Kumyk literature. Kumyk was written using Arabic script
Arabic alphabet

The Arabic alphabet is the writing system used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic language, Persian language, and Urdu language....
 until 1928, using Latin script
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
 from 1928-1938, and using Cyrillic
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
 since then.

The first regular newspapers and magazines appeared in 1917-18.






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Kumyk (Qumuq tili, Qumuqça or Qumuq (alternative spelling: Kumuk tili, Kumukça)) (??????? ????) is a Turkic language
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
, spoken by about 365,000 speakers (the Kumyks
Kumyks

Kumyks are a Turkic people occupying the Kumyk plateau in north Dagestan and south Terek, and the lands bordering the Caspian Sea. They comprise 14% of the population of the Russian republic of Dagestan....
) in the Dagestan
Dagestan

The Republic of Dagestan , older spelling Daghestan, is a federal subjects of Russia of the Russia ....
 republic of Russian Federation.

Yirçi Qazaq (born 1839) is usually considered to be a founder of Kumyk literature. Kumyk was written using Arabic script
Arabic alphabet

The Arabic alphabet is the writing system used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic language, Persian language, and Urdu language....
 until 1928, using Latin script
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
 from 1928-1938, and using Cyrillic
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
 since then.

The first regular newspapers and magazines appeared in 1917-18. Currently, the newspaper ????? (Yoldash, Companion), the successor of the Soviet-era ????? ??? (Lenin yolu, Lenin's Path), prints around 5,000 copies 3 times a week.

It has been strongly influenced by Azeri and Dargwa, as well as by Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 during last century.

Orthography

A Latin based alphabet was used from 1927–1937).

A Cyrillic based alphabet has been used since 1937.

Bibliography

  • Saodat Doniyorova and Toshtemirov Qahramonil. Parlons Koumyk. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004. ISBN 2747564479.


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