Kumyk language

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Kumyk
Kumyk
къумукъ тил; qumuq til • قموق تیل
	Kumyk written in Cyrillic script, along with obsolete Latin and Perso-Arabic counterparts.
Native to	North Caucasus
Region	Dagestan, Chechnya, North Ossetia
Ethnicity	Kumyks
Native speakers	450,000 (2010 census)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kypchak Kypchak–Cuman Kumyk; ; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic
Official status
Official language in	Dagestan (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	kum
ISO 639-3	kum
Glottolog	kumy1244
	Share of the Kumyk population in areas of traditional residence in the Caucasus according to the 2010 census
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Kumyk (къумукъ тил,^[2] qumuq til,^[3] قموق تیل^[4]^[5]) is a Turkic language spoken by about 426,212 people, mainly by the Kumyks, in the Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechen republics of the Russian Federation.^[6] Until the 20th century Kumyk was the lingua-franca of the Northern Caucasus.

^ 2010 Russian Census
^ L. S. Levitskaya, "Kumyk language", in Languages of the world. Turkic languages (1997). (in Russian)
^ Book review Retrieved 1 March 2023
^ Ногайские и Кумыкский тексты, 1883, М.-Э. Османов, СпБ
^ Татарская грамматика кавказского наречия / Сост. Т. Макаровым. - Тифлис : тип. Канцелярии наместника кавк., 1848
^ "Kumyksky yazyk | Malye yazyki Rossii" Кумыкский язык | Малые языки России [Kumyk language | Minor languages of Russia]. minlang.iling-ran.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-05-11.

Kumyk
къумукъ тил qumuq til • قموق تیل
Kumyk written in Cyrillic script, along with obsolete Latin and Perso-Arabic counterparts.
Native to	North Caucasus
Region	Dagestan, Chechnya, North Ossetia
Ethnicity	Kumyks
Native speakers	450,000 (2010 census)^[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kypchak Kypchak–Cuman Kumyk
Writing system	Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic
Official status
Official language in	Dagestan (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`kum`
ISO 639-3	`kum`
Glottolog	`kumy1244`
Share of the Kumyk population in areas of traditional residence in the Caucasus according to the 2010 census
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.