Urum
Resource documentation for Urum [uˈrum].
Caucasian Urum is spoken by a Greek population in the district of Trialeti, Georgia (Small Caucasus). Currently, the language is strongly endangered. While the Urum population numbered 30811 people according to the 1979 Population Census of the Georgian SSR, their number is estimated to have decreased to only 1500 people in 2006 (data from the European Centre for Minority Issues, see Wheatley 2006). In recent years, many native speakers have left the traditional villages and moved to Tiflis or to further destinations outside Georgia (the most frequent destination being Greece). The language documentation is imperative, both in the interest of the scientific community and in the interest of the language community itself, seeing that its cultural heritage will be extinct within the next few decades.
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Developed Resources
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External Resources
Websites
- 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 (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.)
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Audio/Video
- Urum Alphabet in Verses (Publicly Available on YouTube)
- Урум дыли: Урумська: Urum (YouTube content, more available at the link)
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.
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
- Covers Topics/Provides Resources On: Orthography, Phonology, Word Classes and Morphological Categories, Lexicon; Sample Texts
