Chuvash
//t͡ʃʊˈvɑːʃ// adj, name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone from, or pertaining to Chuvashia
- 2 the Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash wordnet
- 3 a member of a people of Turkic speech living in the Volga region in eastern Russia wordnet
Adjective
- 1 From, or pertaining to, Chuvashia not-comparable
Proper Noun
- 1 An agglutinative language of the Bolgar branch of the Turkic language family and is spoken west of the Ural mountains in central Russia. Chuvash is the native language of the Chuvash people and an official language of Chuvashia. It is spoken by about two million people.
Example
More examples""Paradigm shift" is called "csirkenyak" in Chuvash."
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian чуваш (čuvaš), see there for more.
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