Language
name and locationː
Urum,
Georgia, Ukraine
[Refer to
Ethnologue] |
1. bir |
21. iɡirmi bir |
2. iqi |
22. iɡirmi iqi |
3. ytʃ |
23. iɡirmi ytʃ |
4. dœrt |
24. iɡirmi dœrt |
5. beʃ |
25. iɡirmi beʃ |
6. alti |
26. iɡirmi alti |
7. eddi |
27. iɡirmi eddi |
8. sæqkiz |
28. iɡirmi sæqkiz |
9. doqkuz |
29. iɡirmi doqkuz |
10. on |
30. ottuz |
11. on bir |
40. ɣɯrx |
12. on iqi |
50. ælli |
13. on ytʃ |
60. altmɯʃ |
14. on dœrt |
70. etmɯʃ |
15. on beʃ |
80. sæksæn |
16. on alti |
90. doxsan |
17. on eddi |
100. yuz |
18. on sæqkiz |
200. iqi yuz |
19. on doqkuz |
1000. bin |
20. iɡirmi |
2000. iqi bin |
Linguist providing data and dateː Ms.
Violeta Moisidi (Research assistant in Georgia and
native speaker of Urum) and Prof. Stavros Skopeteas,
Faculty of Linguistics and Literary 29 日. |
Other comments: Urum has a decimal system. Urum numerals are similar to other Turkic ones. Note: there is some historical relation between the Urum language in Ukraine and the Urum language in the Caucasus, since they both originate in groups of Greek people speaking Anatolian Turkish that moved out Turkey in the 19th century. But they are not varieties of the same language: these two groups did not have any contact to each other and their languages (originally corresponding to the varieties of Turkish spoken in the area between Trabzond and Kars, developed independently to each other. I do not have any data about the Crimean Urum, apart from the data in the literature, but it seems that this population came into contact with Crimean Tatars. This is not the case for Caucasian Urum: beyond Russian, this group has been only indirectly in contact with Turkish, since there were several waves of migration from Turkey to the Urum communities. Urum is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand ethnic Greeks who inhabit a few villages in Georgia and Southeastern Ukraine. Over the past few generations, there has been a deviation from teaching children Urum to the more common languages of the region, leaving a fairly limited number of new speakers. The Urum language is often considered a variant of Crimean Tatar. |
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