Language name and locationː Urum, Georgia, Ukraine [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区乌鲁姆语, 格鲁吉亚东部地区什达-卡特利州及乌克兰境内

 

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 Studies, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. October 29, 2012.
供资料的语言学家: Ms. Violeta Moisidi and Prof. Stavros Skopeteas, 2012 年 10 月

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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