Dolgan language

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Dolgan
Дулҕан Dulğan, Долган Dolgan
Spoken in: Russia 
Region: Krasnoyarsk Krai
Total speakers: ~5,000
Language family: Altaic[1] (controversial)
 Turkic
  Northern Turkic
   Dolgan
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: tut
ISO 639-3: dlg 

Map showing locations of Sakha (dark blue) and Dolgan (blue)

The Dolgan Language is a Turkic language with around 5,000 speakers, spoken in the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. Its speakers are known as the Dolgans.

[edit] Classification

Dolgan is a member of the Northern Turkic family of languages, within which its closest relative is Yakut. The Northern Turkish family is a subgroup of the Turkic languages, which most linguists believe to be member of an Altaic language family.

Like Finnish, Hungarian, and Turkish, Dolgan has vowel harmony, is agglutinative, and has no grammatical gender. Word order is usually Subject Object Verb.

[edit] See also

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Altaic languages
Turkic languagesMongolic languagesTungusic languagesBuyeo languages*
Notes: *A hypothetic language family that includes Korean and the Japonic languages.
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Turkic languages
Bolgar Bolgar† | Chuvash | Hunnic† | Khazar†
Uyghur Old Turkic† | Aini²| Chagatay† | Ili Turki | Lop | Uyghur | Uzbek
Kypchak Baraba | Bashkir | Crimean Tatar¹ | Cuman† | Karachay-Balkar | Karaim | Karakalpak | Kazakh | Kipchak† | Krymchak | Kumyk | Nogay | Tatar | Urum¹|Altay | Kyrgyz
Oghuz Afshar | Azerbaijani | Crimean Tatar¹ | Gagauz | Khorasani Turkish | Ottoman Turkish† | Pecheneg† | Qashqai | Salar | Turkish | Turkmen | Urum¹
Khalaj Khalaj
Northeastern Chulym | Dolgan | Fuyü Gïrgïs | Khakas | Northern Altay | Shor | Tofa | Tuvan | Western Yugur | Sakha / Yakut
Notes: ¹Listed in more than one group, ²Mixed language, †Extinct