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Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

47,880

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Ethnic Population

43,300

Non-monolingual speakers

70% also use Russian

More about speakers

37,800 in Russian Federation. 10,000 in Turkey. Population total all countries: 47,880. Ethnic population: 43,300

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

Countries

Russia; Turkey;

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Location description

Karachayevo-Cherkesiya and Stavropol’skiy Kray, Russia

Government support

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Institutional support

Newspapers. Radio programs. TV. Dictionary. Grammar.

Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic

Other writing systems

Karachayevo-Cherkesiya and Stavropol’skiy Kray, Russia

More on writing systems

Latin, used in Turkey

Other languages used

Russian, Turkish

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

L1 for about 95%.

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

31,000

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

44.1556,41.9368

Location description

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Government support

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~31,400

Domains of Use

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

33613

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

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Year of info

1993

Location and Context

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Other languages used

Russian

Domains of other languages

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

44.0,42.0

Location description

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Government support

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