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The number of speakers is not known exactly, but may range in some tens of thousands.

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2007

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Eastern Europe, Caucasia

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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.

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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.

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192,700

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97,700 in Georgia (2000). 95,000 in Ukraine (2000).

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2009

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Ukraine; Georgia; Greece; Russia;

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Caucasus. Southeast Ukraine, Donetsk Oblast

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Caucasus. Southeast Ukraine, Donetsk Oblast

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2005

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