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, and Ukranian Urum (also known as Greek-Tatar; utilizing the Cyrillic alphabet), as well as Turkish Urum.

Developed Resources

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External Resources

Websites

• Urum Language Wikipedia

• 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.
  • 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)