Dolgan language

Dolgan
Дулҕан Dulğan, Һака Haka
Native to	Russia
Region	Krasnoyarsk Krai
Ethnicity	Dolgans
Native speakers	1,100 (2010 census)^[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic Northern Dolgan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`dlg`
Glottolog	`dolg1241`^[2]
Sakha (blue) and Dolgan (green)

The Dolgan language is a Turkic language with around 1,000 speakers, spoken in the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. Its speakers are known as the Dolgans.

Classification

Dolgan is a member of the Northern Turkic family of languages, within which its closest relative is Sakha (Yakut). Like Finnish, Hungarian, and Turkish, Dolgan has vowel harmony, is agglutinative, and has no grammatical gender. Word order is usually subject–object–verb.

Dolgan:

Uskuolaga üörenebin
Hakalī kepsetebin
Kār
Tuogunan hir barıta habıllınna?

Yakut:

Oskuolaga üörenebin
Saxalī kepsetebin
Xār
Tugunan sir bar(ı)ta sabılınna?

Literal English translation:

(I am) studying at school
(I) speak Yakut (Dolgan)
Snow
What covered the ground?

↑ Dolgan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dolgan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Italics indicate extinct languages

Proto-language

Arghu

Ponto-Caspian	Cuman Crimean Tatar Karachay-Balkar Karaim Kipchak Krymchak Kumyk Urum²

Aralo-Caspian	Siberian Tatar Fergana Kipchak Karakalpak Kazakh Kyrgyz Nogai

Uralo-Caspian	Bashkir Old Tatar Tatar

State languages of Russia

Federal language	Russian

State languages of federal subjects	Abaza Adyghe Agul Altai Avar Azerbaijani Bashkir Buryat Chechen Chuvash Crimean Tatar Dargwa Erzya Ingush Kabardian Kalmyk Karachay-Balkar Khakas Komi Kumyk Lak Lezgian Mari Hill Meadow Moksha Nogai Ossetic Rutul Sakha Tabasaran Tat Tatar Tsakhur Tuvan Ukrainian Udmurt

Languages with official status	Chukchi Dolgan Even Evenki Finnish Karelian Kazakh Komi-Permyak Veps Yukaghir

Scripts	Cyrillic Cyrillic Braille

Dolgan language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

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