Chuvash language

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Chuvash
Чӑвашла Çăvaşla
Pronunciation	[tɕəʋaʃˈla]
Native to	Russia
Region	Volga region (esp. Chuvashia)
Ethnicity	1.05 million Chuvash (2020 census)[1]
Native speakers	740,000 (2020 census)[1]
Language family	Turkic Oghuric Chuvash
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in	Chuvashia (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	cv
ISO 639-2	chv
ISO 639-3	chv
Glottolog	chuv1255
Chuvash native speaker distribution
Chuvash is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]
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Chuvash (UK: /ˈtʃuːvɑːʃ/ CHOO-vahsh,^[3] US: /tʃʊˈvɑːʃ/ chuu-VAHSH;^[4] Чӑвашла, translit. Çăvaşla, IPA: [tɕəʋaʃˈla])^[a] is a Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages, one of the two principal branches of the Turkic family.^[5]

The writing system for the Chuvash language is based on the Cyrillic script, employing all of the letters used in the Russian alphabet and adding four letters of its own: Ӑ, Ӗ, Ҫ and Ӳ.

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