Dolgan Language Information
The Dolgan language is a Turkic language with around 5,000 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). The Northern Turkic family is a subgroup of the Turkic languages, which most linguists believe to be member of an Altaic language family.
Like Finnish, Hungarian, and Turkish, Dolgan has vowel harmony, is agglutinative, and has no grammatical gender. Word order is usually Subject Object Verb.
See also
Further reading
- Stachowski, M.: Dolganischer Wortschatz, Kraków 1993 (+ Dolganischer Wortschatz. Supplementband, Kraków 1998).
- Stachowski, M.: Dolganische Wortbildung, Kraków 1997.
References
- ^ "[1] Ethnologue"
Categories: Agglutinative languages | Turkic languages | Languages of Russia | Krasnoyarsk Krai
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