Dolgan language

Dolgan
Дулҕан Dulğan, Һака Haka
Native to	Russia
Region	Krasnoyarsk Krai
Ethnicity	Dolgans
Native speakers	1,100 (2010 census)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic Northern Dolgan
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.

Comparison

Dolgan: Uskuolaga üörenebin Hakalī kepsetebin Kār Tuogunan hir barıta habıllınna?

Yakut: Oskuolaga üörenebin Saxalī kepsetebin Xār Tugunan sir bar(ı)ta sabılınna?

Literal English translation: (I am) studying at school (I) speak Yakut (Dolgan) Snow What covered the ground?

See also

• Dolgans

Further reading

• Stachowski, M.: Dolganischer Wortschatz, Kraków 1993 (+ Dolganischer Wortschatz. Supplementband, Kraków 1998).
• Stachowski, M.: Dolganische Wortbildung, Kraków 1997.