November 18, 2011

A Concise Gagauz Dictionary

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A Concise Gagauz Dictionary
with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani and Turkmen cognates
by Andras Rajki


The Gagauz language (Gagauz dili) is a Turkic language, spoken by the Gagauz people, and the official language of Gagauzia, Moldova. There are two dialects, Bulgar Gagauzi and Maritime Gagauzi. This is a different language from Balkan Gagauz Turkish. Originally, it used the Greek alphabet. Beginning in 1957, the Cyrillic alphabet was used. The current Gagauz alphabet is a Latin-based alphabet, modelled after theTurkish alphabet.


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