Urum
[également appelé урумский язык, урум тыль, Urumca]Classification : Turkic
·en danger
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En danger
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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10,000-99,999
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The number of speakers is not known exactly, but may range in some tens of thousands.
- TENDANCES AU NIVEAU DES LOCUTEURS
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- TRANSMISSION
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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A language shift to dominant languages has proceeded rapidly, leaving few child speakers.
- PLACES
- Eastern Europe, Caucasia
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Originally spoken in the south of the Crimea, now in a few villages in Donets’k (Donetsk) Province in the southeast of the Ukraine and in some places, notably Trialeti, in Georgia and perhaps elsewhere in Caucasia.