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	~~<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Urum~~


	~~<b>Description:</b>~~

	~~Urum is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand people who inhabit a few villages in the Southeastern Ukraine and in diaspora communities world wide.~~
	The name Urum is derived from Rûm ("Rome"), the term for the Byzantine empire in the Muslim world. The Ottoman Empire used it to describe non-Muslims within the empire. The initial vowel in Urum is prosthetic: originally Turkic languages did not have r- in word-initial position, and in borrowed words used to add a vowel before it. The common use of the term Urum appears to have led to some confusion, as most Turkish-speaking Greeks were called Urum. The Turkish-speaking population in Georgia is often confused with the distinct community in the Ukraine. (see: Urums)
	~~(1) /ts/ is found only in loanwords.~~
	~~(2) /θ/ and /ð/ are found only in loanwords from Greek.~~
	A few manuscripts are known to be written in Urum using Greek characters. During the period between 1927 and 1937,the Urum language was written in reformed Latin characters, the so called New Turkic Alphabet, and used in local schools; at least one primer is known to have been printed. In 1937 the use of written Urum stopped. Alexander Garkavets uses the following<i>[~~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1456224 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>~~
	~~<tr><td><h2>Location of Urum Language Speakers</h2>~~
	~~<googlemap zoom="1" width=400 height=300 lat="46.014076" lon="74.549231" type="map">~~
	~~42.190170, 43.278148, Georgia~~
	~~49.837982, 105.820313, Asia</googlemap>~~
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	~~<h2>Overview</h2>~~

	~~<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>~~[~~http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000060234 Georgia]</td></tr>~~

	~~<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>~~

	~~<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/asia Asia]~~
	~~</td></tr>~~

	~~<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>~~uum~~</td></tr>~~

	~~</table>~~
	~~</td></tr>~~
	~~<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>~~
	~~[[All Languages]]~~

	~~  [[Altaic Group]]~~

	~~    [[Turkic Group]]~~

	~~      <b>[[Urum Language~~]]~~</b>~~

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2009-07-14T09:08:27Z

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<table valign=top>
<tr>
<td valign=top align=left width="50%">
<table valign=top>
<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Urum

<b>Description:</b>

Urum is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand people who inhabit a few villages in the Southeastern Ukraine and in diaspora communities world wide.
The name Urum is derived from Rûm ("Rome"), the term for the Byzantine empire in the Muslim world. The Ottoman Empire used it to describe non-Muslims within the empire. The initial vowel in Urum is prosthetic: originally Turkic languages did not have r- in word-initial position, and in borrowed words used to add a vowel before it. The common use of the term Urum appears to have led to some confusion, as most Turkish-speaking Greeks were called Urum. The Turkish-speaking population in Georgia is often confused with the distinct community in the Ukraine. (see: Urums)
(1) /ts/ is found only in loanwords.
(2) /θ/ and /ð/ are found only in loanwords from Greek.
A few manuscripts are known to be written in Urum using Greek characters. During the period between 1927 and 1937,the Urum language was written in reformed Latin characters, the so called New Turkic Alphabet, and used in local schools; at least one primer is known to have been printed. In 1937 the use of written Urum stopped. Alexander Garkavets uses the following<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1456224 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Urum Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="1" width=400 height=300 lat="46.014076" lon="74.549231" type="map">
42.190170, 43.278148, Georgia
49.837982, 105.820313, Asia</googlemap>
</td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
</table>
</td>
<td valign=top align=right>
<table valign=top>
<tr><td><table>

<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000060234 Georgia]</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/asia Asia]
</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>uum</td></tr>

</table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Altaic Group]]

    [[Turkic Group]]

      <b>[[Urum Language]]</b>

</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

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