Dolgan language
| Dolgan | |
|---|---|
| Дулҕан Dulğan, Һака Haka | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
| Ethnicity | Dolgans |
Native speakers | 1,100 (2010 census)[1] |
Turkic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dlg |
| Glottolog | dolg1241 |
| ELP | Dolgan |
 Sakha (blue) and Dolgan (green) | |
The Dolgan language is a Turkic language with around 1,000 speakers, spoken in the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. Its speakers are known as the Dolgans.
Classification
Dolgan is a member of the Northern Turkic family of languages, within which its closest relative is Sakha (Yakut). Like Finnish, Hungarian, and Turkish, Dolgan has vowel harmony, is agglutinative, and has no grammatical gender. Word order is usually subject–object–verb.
See also
Further reading
- Stachowski, M.: Dolganischer Wortschatz, Kraków 1993 (+ Dolganischer Wortschatz. Supplementband, Kraków 1998).
- Stachowski, M.: Dolganische Wortbildung, Kraków 1997.
References
- ^ Dolgan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
