Turkic · ISO 639-3 kum
Kumyk Language Къумукъча
Kumyk is a Turkic language spoken by about 426,212 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Kumyk is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Kumyk
Language family
- Turkic
- Common Turkic
- Kipchak-Turkestan
- Kipchak
- Northwest Kipchak
- West Kipchak
- Kaukasus Kipchak
- Kumyk
Writing system
Cyrillic script
Related languages
About the Kumyk language
Kumyk (Къумукъча) is spoken by about 426,212 people, which makes it the 500th most spoken language in the world — just behind Erzya (440,000) and ahead of Luxembourgish (420,000). It belongs to the Turkic language family and, more precisely, to the Kaukasus Kipchak group within the Kipchak-Turkestan branch.
Where is Kumyk spoken?
Kumyk is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (422,463).
Kumyk is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Kumyk is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Karachay-Balkar, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Northern Uzbek and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 kum.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.