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Chuvash language

Chu·vash or Chuwash or Chovash or Chavash or Çuaş

Turkic language of central Russia: a language spoken west of the Urals in central Russia, belonging to the Turkic family of Altaic languages. Chuvash is spoken by about two million people.

Chuvash is offical language of Chuvashia.

Chuvash alphabet uses Russian plus extra letters: А, Е with caron (short vowels), У with Hungury umlauts (Ü) and Ç for sound like in German Ich-Laut.

Chuvash language has afficates [dZ] and [tS] (дж(?), ч), pronouncing like in Turkish and sounds without afficates like in Tatar (ж, ç).