Gagauz leid

The Gagauz leid (Gagauz dili) is a Turkic leid, spoken bi the Gagauz fowk, an the offeecial leid o Gagauzie, Moldovae. Thare are twa dialects, Bulgar Gagauzi an Maritime Gagauzi. This is a different leid frae Balkan Gagauz Turkish ^[1].

Gagauz
Gagauz dili
Native tae	Moldovae, Ukraine, Roushie, Turkey
Region	Gagauzie
Native speakers	160,000 (2000)
Leid faimily	Turkic Oghuz Wastren Oghuz Gagauz
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Gagauzia
Recognised minority leid in	Moldovae  Ukraine
Leid codes
ISO 639-3	gag
Linguasphere	pairt o 44-AAB-a

Alphabet

Oreeginally, it uised the Greek alphabet. Beginnin in 1957, the Cyrillic alphabet wis uised. The current Gagauz alphabet is a Latin-based alphabet, modelled efter the Turkish alphabet, wi the addition o twa letters: ‹ä› tae represent the soond o [æ] (as in Azeri) an ‹ţ› tae represent the soond [ts] (as in Romanian/Moldovan).

Cyrillic alphabet

А а	Ä ä	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё
Ж ж	Ӂ ӂ	З з	И и	Й й	К к	Л л	М м
Н н	О о	Ö ö	П п	Р р	С с	Т т	У у
Ӱ ӱ	Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ
Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

Latin alphabet

А а	Ä ä	B b	C c	Ç ç	D d	Е е	F f
G g	H h	I ı	İ i	J j	K k	L l	M m
N n	O o	Ö ö	Р р	R r	S s	Ş ş	T t
Ţ ţ	U u	Ü ü	V v	Y y	Z z

References

1. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.