CHUVASH (Russia, Europe)

Family
Idil- Ural-Turkish

Country
Russia, Europe

Language code
CJU

Continent
Europe

Alternate language names
BULGAR

Dialect names
ANATRI, VIRYAL

Genetic affiliation
Altaic, Turkic, Bolgar

Geographical region
Chuvasia, east of Moscow, near the Volga River

Population
1,640,000 mother tongue speakers (82%) out of an ethnic population of 2,000,000 (1991 WA)

Bilingual in
Russian

New Testament printings
1904-1911

Printings of whole books of Bible
1820-1988

Status
Work in progress

Remarks
Has status of literary language. Cyrillic script. The only extant language in the Bolgar branch of Turkic

Subsistence type
Agriculturalists

Total speakers
1,640,000

Religion
Christian: Russian Orthodox; traditional religion