UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages: Chuvash
UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages: Chuvash
Source: UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages: Europe // Tapani Salminen
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1. Variant (s):
2. Geographical location: the Russian Federation: Chuvash Republic, extending to Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Samara, Simbirsk, and Saratov provinces
3. Relationships: /Turkic
4. Present state of the language: ENDANGERED
(a) children speakers: some children learn the language, but only few of them are likely to become active users
(b) mean age of youngest speakers:
(c) distribution by sex:
(d) total number of speakers, members of the ethnic group: 1,408,218 speakers in the 1989 Soviet census
(e) degree of speakers' competence: generally fully competent
5. Sources:
(i) information (about the language) : John R. Krueger: Chuvash Manual. Bloomington & The Hague 1961.
(ii) published and unpublished material (of the language) : a lot
(iii) competent scholar (s) and institution (s) : L. P. Sergeev
6. Remarks:
7. Compiler: Tapani Salminen, Helsinki, 31 Dec 1993
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