Editing Nogai language (section)

==Classification==
Nogai is generally classified into the Kipchak–Nogai branch of [[Kipchak languages|Kipchak]] [[Turkic languages|Turkic]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glottolog 4.4 - Nogai|url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/noga1249|access-date=2021-07-25|website=glottolog.org}}</ref> The latter also includes [[Siberian Tatar language|Siberian Tatar]] in [[Russia]], [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]] in [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Karakalpak language|Karakalpak]] in [[Uzbekistan]].

Three distinct dialects are recognized:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baskakov |first=N.A. |title=Nogaysky yazyk i ego dialekty |publisher=Akademii Nauk SSSR |year=1940 |location=Moscow |language=ru |script-title=ru:Ногайский язык и его диалекты: грамматика, тексты и словарь |trans-title=The Nogai language and its dialects: grammar, texts, and dictionary |oclc=12067444 |author-link=Nikolai Baskakov (linguist)}}</ref> 
* '''Karanogay''' or '''Qara-Nogai''' (literally "Black Nogai"; "Northern Nogai"), spoken in [[Dagestan]] and [[Chechnya]].
* '''Central Nogai''' or '''Nogai Proper''', in [[Stavropol]].
* '''[[Ak Nogai|Aqnogai]]''' (White or Western Nogai), by the [[Kuban River]], its tributaries in [[Karachay–Cherkessia]] and in the Mineralnye Vody District. Qara-Nogai and Nogai Proper are very close linguistically, whereas Aqnogai is more different. However, all three are mutually intelligible.

Outside of the southern Caucasus, other varieties exist that are either considered dialects, or distinct languages:

* Nogais in [[Bulgaria]], [[Romania]] and [[Turkey]] has [[Ottoman Turkish]] influences.
* Astrakhan Nogai, with the following three varieties:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yazyki {{!}} Malye yazyki Rossii |script-title=ru:Языки {{!}} Малые языки России |trans-title=Languages {{!}} Minor languages of Russia |url=https://minlang.iling-ran.ru/langs |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=minlang.iling-ran.ru |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Alekseev |first=F.G. |date=2017 |title=Yazyki Astrakhanskoi oblasti |script-title=ru:Языки Астраханской области |trans-title=Languages of Astrakhan Oblast |journal=Malye Yazyki |volume=4 |pages=16–18}}</ref>
** Karagash (also known as Kundrov Tatar)
** Yurt Tatar or Yurt Nogai
** Alabugat Tatar or Alabugat Nogai (also known as Utar)