Editing Urum language (section)

== Name and etymology ==
The name ''[[Urum (disambiguation)|Urum]]'' is derived from ''[[Rûm]]'' 'Rome', the term for the [[Byzantine Empire]] in the Muslim world. The [[Ottoman Empire]] used it to describe non-Muslims within the empire. The initial vowel in Urum is [[Prothesis (linguistics)|prothetic]]. Turkic languages originally did not have {{IPA|/ɾ/}} in word-initial position, and so in borrowed words they used to add a vowel before it. The common use of the term ''Urum'' appears to have led to some confusion, as most [[Turkish language|Turkish]]-speaking Greeks were called Urum. The Turkish-speaking population in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] is often confused with the distinct community in Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publish.diaspora.ru/magazin/articles/russia026_1.shtml|script-title=ru:Понтийские греки|last=Казаков|first=Алексей|date=December 2000|language=Russian|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127062418/http://www.publish.diaspora.ru/magazin/articles/russia026_1.shtml|archive-date=2008-01-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=uum
| title = Ethnologue Report for Urum
|editor-last = Gordon
|editor-first = Raymond G.
| year = 2005
| format = 
| work = Ethnologue: Languages of the World
| publisher = SIL International
}}</ref>