[choo-vahsh; Russ. chyoo-vahsh] 
[choo-vah-shee; Russ. chyoo-vah-shi, -vuh-shi] , (especially collectively
) Chu⋅vash for 1. | 1. | a member of a people of mixed Uralic and Altaic ancestry who live in the middle Volga basin, mainly in the Chuvash Autonomous Republic. |
| 2. | the language of the Chuvash, generally considered Turkic though markedly divergent from all other modern Turkic languages. |