Urum language

Urum
Урум
Urum written in the Cyrillic script, along with the obsolete Latin and Greek scripts
Pronunciation[uˈrum]
Native toUkraine
EthnicityUrums (Turkic-speaking Greeks)
Native speakers
190,000 (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Tsalka
  • North Azovian
Cyrillic, Greek
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-3uum
Glottologurum1249
ELPUrum
Urum is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)
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Urum (Урум, Ουρούμ) is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand ethnic Greeks who inhabit a few villages in southeastern Ukraine. Over the past few generations, there has been a deviation from teaching children Urum to the more common languages of the region, leaving a fairly limited number of new speakers.[3] The Urum language is often considered a variant of Crimean Tatar.

  1. ^ Urum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Про затвердження переліку мов національних меншин (спільнот) та корінних народів України, яким загрожує зникнення". Official webportal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 7 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Did you know Urum is endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2017-02-10.