Dolgan

Facts

  • Language: Dolgan
  • Alternate names: Dulğan, Haka, долганский язык, дулҕан, Һака, долган тыла, һака тыла, Dolganca, Dolgane, Dolganische Sprache, 돌간어
  • Language code: dlg
  • Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, North Siberian Turkic
  • Number of speakers: 5,500
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Cyrillic script.

More information:

    Contact language on Tajmyr Peninsula spoken by Evenki (See: [[Evenki]]), Nganasan (See: [[Nganasan]]), and long-term Russian residents. Different from Yakut (See: [[Yakut]]). Traditional religion.

    The Dolgans speak a dialect of the Yakut language. This dialect has also at times been considered as a separate language, due to the strong Evenk influence which causes it to differ considerably from the Yakut language spoken in the northwestern and middle parts of Yakutia.In certain western groups of Dolgans, a strong Nenets influence has been noted (for example in Sopochnaya Karga at the Yenisey Bay). (The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire, 2001)