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Kumyk language

Kumyk (къумукъ тил, qumuq til, قوموق تیل) is a Turkic language spoken by about 520,000 people, mainly by the Kumyks, in the Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechen republics of the Russian Federation. Until the 20th century Kumyk was the lingua franca of the Northern Caucasus.

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• ▸Che (Cyrillic)
• ▸British North Greenland expedition
• ▸Anatolian hieroglyphs

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