Urum language
| Urum | |
|---|---|
| Урум | |
| Pronunciation | [uˈrum] |
| Native to | Ukraine |
| Ethnicity | Urums (Turkic-speaking Greeks) |
Native speakers | (190,000 cited 2000) |
Turkic
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| Dialects |
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| Cyrillic, Greek | |
| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | uum |
| Glottolog | urum1249 |
| ELP | Urum |
Urum is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Urum (Урум, Ουρούμ) is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand ethnic Greeks who inhabit a few villages in 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.