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Name: Chuvash

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Bulgar; Tschuwaschisch; Tschuwassisch; Czuvasch

Spoken in: Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia

Number of speakers: 1,640,000 in Russian Federation (2002 census). Population total all countries: 1,674,420 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 1325382 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 1834394 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: chv

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Turkic

Parent Subgroup: Bolgar; Chuvash; Ogur; Oghur; Oguric; Bulghar; Lir-Turkic; *r-Dialekt; Proto-tschuwaschisch; Bulgar (bolg)

Child Dialects: Viryal; vir-jal; Hochdorf; Upper Chuvash; Northern Chuvash (chv-vir) Anatri; anatri; Niederländer; Lower Chuvash; Southern Chuvash (chv-ana)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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