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Name: Noghay
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Nogai; Nogay; Noghai; Noghaylar; Nogaitsy; Nogalar
Spoken in: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Romania
Number of speakers: 90,000 in Russian Federation (2002 census), decreasing. Population total all countries: 90,310. Ethnic population: 75,000 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 90020 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 67806 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: nog
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Turkic
Parent Subgroup: South Kipchak; Aralo-Caspian (sstu)
Child Dialects: Central Nogai (nog-cen) White Nogai; Ak; Ak-Nogai (nog-whi) Black Nogai; Noghay (Karagash); Kara; Kara-Nogai (nog-bla)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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