Nogai language

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Nogai
ногай тили, ногайша (nogay tili, nogayşa)
Nogai written in Cyrillic and Latin scripts
Native to	Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Region	Caucasus
Ethnicity	108,000 Nogais (2020 census)[1]
Native speakers	86,000 (2020 census)[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Nogai Nogai
Writing system	Cyrillic, Latin[2]
Official status
Official language in	Russia  Dagestan Nogaysky District  Karachay-Cherkessia Nogai District
Language codes
ISO 639-2	nog
ISO 639-3	nog
Glottolog	noga1249
ELP	Noghay
	Alabugat Tatar[3]
Nogai is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[4]

Nogai (/noʊˈɡaɪ/ noh-GHY; Ногай тили, Nogay tili, Ногайша, Nogayşa) also known as Noğay, Noghay, Nogay, or Nogai Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken in Southeastern European Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. It is the ancestral language of the Nogais. As a member of the Kipchak branch, it is closely related to Kazakh, Karakalpak and Crimean Tatar. In 2014 the first Nogai novel (Akşa Nenem) was published, written in the Latin alphabet.^[5]