Dolgan

Turkic language with around 5,000 speakers, spoken in the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia
Language language Q32878
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Dolgan

Summary

Dolgan is a language[1]. Dolgan ranks in the top 1% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (330 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dolgan is in the country of Russia[3].
  • Dolgan's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Dolgan's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Dolgan is a type of Northern Siberian[6].
  • Dolgan's writing system is recorded as Cyrillic script[7].
  • Dolgan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dolgan language[8].
  • Dolgan's described at URL is recorded as https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=dgn[9].
  • Dolgan's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+4836'}[10].
  • Dolgan's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'dlg', 'text': 'долган'}[11].
  • Dolgan's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'dlg', 'text': 'һака'}[12].
  • Dolgan's UNESCO language status is recorded as 3 definitely endangered[13].
  • Dolgan's indigenous to is recorded as Krasnoyarsk Krai[14].
  • Dolgan's indigenous to is recorded as Sakha[15].
  • Dolgan's indigenous to is recorded as Dolgans[16].
  • Dolgan's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/DLG[17].
  • Dolgan's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 6b Threatened[18].
  • Dolgan's linguistic typology is recorded as subject–object–verb[19].
  • Dolgan's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[20].

Why It Matters

Dolgan ranks in the top 1% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (330 views/month).[2] Dolgan has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Dolgan is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . 2021 Russian census. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Dolgan-Russian and Russian-Dolgan Dictionary. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Q134593260. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of
    Native label {'lang': 'dlg', 'text': 'долган'}, {'lang': 'dlg', 'text': 'һака'}
    Country Russia
    Iso 639-2 code tut
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007536527805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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