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Chuvash
[ choo-vahsh; Russian chyoo-vahsh ]
noun
, plural Chu·vash·es, Chu·va·shi [choo-, vah, -shee, chyoo-, vah, -shi, -vuh-, shi], (especially collectively) Chu·vash
- a member of a people of mixed Uralic and Altaic ancestry who live in the middle Volga basin, mainly in the Chuvash Autonomous Republic.
- the language of the Chuvash, generally considered Turkic though markedly divergent from all other modern Turkic languages.
Chuvash
/ tʃʊˈvɑːʃ /
noun
- -vash-vashes a Turkic ethnic people living chiefly in the middle Volga region of Russia
- the language of this people, generally classed within the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
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