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Dolgan
Дулҕан Dulğan, Һака Haka
Spoken in	Russia
Region	Krasnoyarsk Krai
Total speakers	~5,000
Language family	Altaic[1] (controversial) Turkic Northern Turkic Dolgan
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	tut
ISO 639-3	dlg
Map showing locations of Sakha (dark blue) and Dolgan (blue)
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The Dolgan language is a Turkic language with around 5,000 speakers, spoken in the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. Its speakers are known as the Dolgans.

Classification

Dolgan is a member of the Northern Turkic family of languages, within which its closest relative is Yakut. The Northern Turkic family is a subgroup of the Turkic languages, which most linguists believe to be member of an Altaic language family.

Like Finnish, Hungarian, and Turkish, Dolgan has vowel harmony, is agglutinative, and has no grammatical gender. Word order is usually Subject Object Verb.

See also

• Dolgans
• Ethnologue entry for Dolgan

Further reading

• Stachowski, M.: Dolganischer Wortschatz, Kraków 1993 (+ Dolganischer Wortschatz. Supplementband, Kraków 1998).
• Stachowski, M.: Dolganische Wortbildung, Kraków 1997.

References