Nogai language

Nogai
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)
Native speakers	86,000 (2020 census)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Nogai Nogai; ; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic, Latin
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

Nogai (/noʊˈɡaɪ/ no-GUY; 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.

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