Also Known As:
Gagauzi, Gaugausen
Dialects & Varieties
- Maritime Gagauzi
- Bulgar Gagauz
Recent Resources
A website to look up Gagauz words in an online English-Gagauz dictionary.
It is the youtube page of the channel where the Gagauz people living in Moldova live live in Gagauz
Learn Gagauz language vocabulary of colors - apprendre le vocabulaire gagaouze des couleurs
Vulnerable
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~200,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 2
A majority of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are gradually decreasing.
2
Transmission
Transmission 1
Most adults in the community, and some children, are speakers.
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Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.
Bibliography of Locations:
2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
Bibliography of Context:
Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.