Urum

Resource documentation for Urum [uˈrum].

Urum is a language spoken in both Ukraine, and Georgia by an estimated 190,000 (2000) speakers. It is a Turkic language with the specification of the language family being as follows: [Turkic → Common Turkic → Kipchak → West Kypchak]. Urum has two distinct dialects: Caucasian Urum (local to Greece and the surrounding country, utilizing the Greek alphabet; it is also important to note that the variety of Urum called: Turkish Urum, is considered to be a variety of this), and Ukranian Urum (also known as Greek-Tatar; utilizing the Cyrillic alphabet).

Developed Resources

• Urum Keyboard Layout (Source Code)
• Urum Language Tools Respository
• Urum Apertium Transducer (Source Code)
• Urum Apertium RBMT System (Source Code)

Developed Documentation

• Urum Apertium Pipeline Disambiguation
• Urum Language Grammar Overview

External Resources

Websites

• Wikipedia: Urum Language

• Endangered Languages: Urum (this article is a stub, perhaps we can improve it!)

• Wiktionary: Urum Article (this article is a stub, perhaps we can improve it!)

• Virtual Language Observatory: Urum (this article is a stub, perhaps we can improve it!)

Computational Resources

• Globse: Online Urum Translator (perhaps poor in quality, uses algorithmic analysis)

Dictionaries

• Urum Dictionary Online Олександр Гаркавець. Урумський словник – Алмати: Баур, 2000.– 632 с. (Oleksandr Harkavets. Urum Dictionary. Almaty: Baur, 2000. – 632 p.) (Rights Reserved)

Audio/Video

• Urum Alphabet in Verses (Publicly Available on YouTube)

• Урум дыли: Урумська: Urum (YouTube content, more available at the link)

• Урумский язык, Урум дили (приазовский вариант), Учебное пособие для начинающих с аудиоприложением, Смолина М., 2008. (The Urum language (Azov region version), Tutorial for beginners with audio tapes, Smolina M., 2008)

Grammatical Descriptions

• Caucasian Urums and Urum language (Kafkasya Urumları ve Urum Dili) by Stavros Skopeteas, Bielefeld University, submitted to the Handbook of Endangered Turkic Languages, ed. by Süer Eker and Ülkü Çelik

• Urum Documentation Project - A cooperative research project at the Universities of Athens, Bielefeld, Bremen, and Potsdam (funded by the Latsis Foundation). This is a multipart work, which contains multiple sections on various aspects of the Urum language, which was all compiled together by the same group of researchers working in conjunction to create a comprehensive academic, and mostly cursory, description of the Caucasian variety of the language. (Rights Reserved; Can Gain Permission of the Researching Body)
  • Description of Basic Lexicon
  • Narrative Collection
  • Vowel Harmony and Noun Inflections
  • Basic Grammatical Structures

Scientific Works

• Caucasian Urums and Urum language (Kafkasya Urumları ve Urum Dili) Stavros Skopeteas, Bielefeld University; from Handbook of Endangered Turkic Languages ed. by Süer Eker and Ülkü Çelik (Rights Reserved)
  • Covers Topics/Provides Resources On: Orthography, Phonology, Word Classes and Morphological Categories, Lexicon; Sample Texts

• 'The Syntax of Focus in Caucasian Urum' by Stefanie Schröter (Rights Reserved)
• 'From Double to Dependent Marking? An Investigation of Possessive Constructions in Caucasian Urum' by Johanna Neugebauer in DE GRUYTER MOUTON (STUF 2016; 69(2): 277–307) (Rights Reserved)
  • Covers the results of study on possessive constructions in the Turkish variation of Caucasian Urum
• 'Discovering the Prehistory of Multilingual Situations in the Lexicon, an Empirical Study on the Caucasian Urum Vocabulary' - Veronika Ries, Stavros Skopeteas, Emrah Turan, Kirstin Nahrmann (Bielefeld) (Rights Reserved)
• "Языки мира. Тюркские языки." Российская академия наук, институт языкознания. Издательский дом, Кыргызстан, Бишкек. ("Languages of the world. Turkic languages." Russian Academy of Sciences. Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek)

Text Resources/Corpora

• UKRAYNA'DAK‹ URUM TÜRKLER‹ VE FOLKLORU (Urum Turks and Urum's folklore in Ukraine) - Doç. Dr. Hülya KASAPO⁄LU ÇENGEL* (Rights Reserved)
• Хара Гавриил Спиридонович - Урумский сборник из Гранитного (Карани) Тельмановского района Донецкой области (Hara Gavriil Spiridonovich - Urum Collection from Granite (Karani) Telmanovsky District of Donetsk Region) - (ANCIENT TEXT, BARELY CAN READ! PERHAPS WE COULD USE SOME KIND OF IMAGE/PDF OCR PROGRAM!)
• советская археология 1973 (Soviet archeology 1973) (NOT SURE HOW TO READ THIS...)
• Олександр ГАРКАВЕЦЬ УРУМИ НАДАЗОВ’Я (Oleksandr HARKAVETS THE URUM PEOPLE OF NORTH AZOV)

Credits

This wiki was created by Sasha Casada ('24) User:Scasada1 and Alina Vykliuk ('26) User:avykliu1