Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a people located in the middle Volga River valley, chiefly in Chuvashia.
- noun The Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash.
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- adjective From, or pertaining to,
Chuvashia - noun Someone from, or pertaining to
Chuvashia - proper noun An
agglutinative language of theBolgar branch of theTurkic language family and is spoken west of theUral mountains in centralRussia . Chuvash is the native language of the Chuvash people and an official language ofChuvashia . It is spoken by about two million people.
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- noun the Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash
- noun a member of a people of Turkic speech living in the Volga region in eastern Russia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ethnic Russians dominated, with 81.5 percent of the population, followed by Tatars (3.8 percent), Ukrainians (3.0 percent), Chuvash (1.2 percent), and Bashkirs (0.9 percent).
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Ethnic Russians dominated, with 81.5 percent of the population, followed by Tatars (3.8 percent), Ukrainians (3.0 percent), Chuvash (1.2 percent), and Bashkirs (0.9 percent).
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Ethnic Russians dominated, with 81.5 percent of the population, followed by Tatars (3.8 percent), Ukrainians (3.0 percent), Chuvash (1.2 percent), and Bashkirs (0.9 percent).
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Ethnic Russians dominated, with 81.5 percent of the population, followed by Tatars (3.8 percent), Ukrainians (3.0 percent), Chuvash (1.2 percent), and Bashkirs (0.9 percent).
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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RussiaRussian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census)
Ethnic groups 2008
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Ethnic groups: Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census)
Russia 2008
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The nearest relative of Hunnic today is Chuvash spoken between the outskirts of Moscow and the Ural Mountains.
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Chuvash is the only living descendant of Ogur Turkic, but it has undergone considerable influence from both common Turkic (Kazan Tatar) and non-Turkic (Finno Ugric and Russian.)
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Wiesbaden, 1965 writes: The ancestor of Chuvash and Common Turkic constituted a unity which preceded in time the appearance of Common Turkic.
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By the way, what makes Culver's article so astonishing is that I have never heard as much discussion of languages (from Chuvash (if that's how you say it in English) to Chinook Jargon) in any other language as I hear in Esperanto.
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