Dolgan language

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The Dolgan language is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Dolgan people of northern Siberia, particularly in Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dolgan language canonical 5
Dulgan language 1

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language
minority language
natural language
alphabetBasedOn Russian Cyrillic alphabet NERFINISHED
classificationStatus often treated as a separate language in modern descriptions
sometimes considered a variety of Yakut by some linguists
closelyRelatedTo Sakha language NERFINISHED
Yakut language NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
ethnicAssociation Dolgan ethnicity
family Turkic languages
geographicConcentration Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets District NERFINISHED
hasDomainUsage folklore
oral tradition
traditional songs
hasLinguisticFeature SOV basic word order
agglutinative morphology
vowel harmony
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory adapted to Arctic environment
influencedBy Russian language NERFINISHED
Yakut language NERFINISHED
languageBranch Common Turkic NERFINISHED
languageCodeISO639-1 none
languageCodeISO639-2 dlg
languageCodeISO639-3 dlg
minorityStatusIn Russia NERFINISHED
region Arctic Russia NERFINISHED
northern Siberia
riskFactor language shift to Russian
scriptReform Cyrillic-based orthography standardized in Soviet period
spokenBy Dolgan people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Krasnoyarsk Krai NERFINISHED
Russian Federation NERFINISHED
Siberia NERFINISHED
Taymyr Peninsula NERFINISHED
subfamily North Siberian Turkic languages NERFINISHED
Siberian Turkic languages
usedFor daily communication within Dolgan communities
usedInEducation limited local schooling
writingSystem Cyrillic script

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sakha language closelyRelatedTo Dolgan language
Northeastern Turkic hasMember Dolgan language
Yakut closelyRelatedTo Dolgan language
Dolgan hasAlternativeName Dolgan language
Dolgan hasAlternativeName Dolgan language
this entity surface form: Dulgan language
Dudinka district hasLanguageCommunity Dolgan language