Kumyk language

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	A series of videos about the similarities of languages
	Comparison of Kumyk and Tatar languages

Kumyk
Kumyk
къумукъ тил; qumuq til • قموق تیل
	Kumyk written in Cyrillic script, along with obsolete Latin and Perso-Arabic counterparts.
Native to	North Caucasus
Region	Dagestan, Chechnya, North Ossetia
Ethnicity	Kumyks
Native speakers	450,000 (2010 census)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kypchak Kypchak–Cuman Kumyk; ; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic
Official status
Official language in	Dagestan (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	kum
ISO 639-3	kum
Glottolog	kumy1244

Kumyk (къумукъ тил, qumuq til, قموق تیل) is a Turkic language spoken by about 426,212 people, mainly by the Kumyks, in the Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechen republics of the Russian Federation. Until the 20th century Kumyk was the lingua-franca of the Northern Caucasus.

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