NOGAI (Russia, Europe)

Family
Central-(Kipchak)-Turkish

Country
Russia, Europe

Language code
NOG

Continent
Europe

Alternate language names
NOGAY, NOGHAY, NOGHAI, NOGHAY- LAR, NOGAITSY, NOGALAR

Dialect names
WHITE NOGAI (AK), BLACK NOGAI (KARA), CENTRAL NOGAI

Genetic affiliation
Altaic, Turkic, Western, Aralo-Caspian

Geographical region
Northern Caucasus, Cherkes AO

Population
54,000 mother tongue speakers (90%) out of an ethnic population of 60,000 (1979 census)

Bilingual in
Russian

Printings of whole books of Bible
Yes

Remarks
The literary language is based on White Nogai, Black Nogai, and Central Nogai. Dialect differences are slight. Cyrillic script. Speakers use Russian as second language

Total speakers
54,000

Religion
Sunni Muslim