Nogai

E218126

Nogai is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Nogai people of the North Caucasus region in Russia.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Nogai canonical 11
Nogai Tatars 1
Nogai proper 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kipchak language
Turkic language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Karakalpak language
Kazakh language
Kyrgyz language
linked to: Kyrgyz
country Russia
endangermentStatus definitely endangered (UNESCO classification, commonly cited)
ethnicGroupAssociated Nogai people
linked to: Nogai Horde
hasCaseSystem true
hasDialect Aknogai dialect
Karanogai dialect
Nogai proper dialect
hasGrammaticalFeature case-marked nouns
no grammatical gender
postpositions instead of prepositions
suffixal verb inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory influenced by Caucasian languages
vowel harmony by backness and rounding
hasVowelHarmony true
historicallyDerivedFrom languages of the Nogai Horde
languageCodeISO639-3 nog
languageFamily Turkic
linked to: Turkic languages
languageShiftTrend shift toward Russian among younger speakers
minorityLanguageStatus minority language in Russia
morphologicalType agglutinative language
region North Caucasus
scriptHistory Arabic script used historically before Soviet reforms
Latin-based alphabet used in early Soviet period
SOVWordOrder true
spokenBy Nogai people
linked to: Nogai Horde
spokenIn Dagestan
Karachay-Cherkess Republic
linked to: Karachay-Cherkessia

North Caucasus
Russian Federation
linked to: Russia

Stavropol Krai NERFINISHED
standardizationPeriod 20th century
subfamily Kipchak–Nogai
usedInEducation limited use in local schools in Nogai-populated areas
usedInMedia local print and broadcast media in Nogai-populated regions
usesAlphabetBasedOn Russian Cyrillic alphabet
writingSystem Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

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

Kyrgyz closelyRelatedTo Nogai
Nogais ethnonym Nogai
Nogais selfDesignation Nogai
Nogai language hasDialect Nogai proper
linked to: Nogai
Ust-Dzheguta hasLanguage Nogai
Nogai Khan givenName Nogai
Tatars hasSubgroup Nogai Tatars
subject linked to: Tatar
linked to: Nogai
Epic of Alpamys Batyr ethnicTradition Nogai
subject linked to: epic of Alpamys Batyr