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Name: Kumyk

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Kumuk; Kumuklar; Kumyki

Spoken in: Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey

Number of speakers: 422,000 in Russian Federation (2002 Census). Population total all countries: 422,550 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 458121 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 282554 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: kum

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Turkic

Parent Subgroup: West Kipchak; Ponto-Caspian; Kumyk-Karachay (pcas)

Child Dialects: Khasavyurt; Khasav-Yurt; Northern Kumyk (kum-khv) Khaikent; Khaidak; Southern Kumyk (kum-kha) Buinaksk; Buinak; Middle Kumyk (kum-bui)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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