Editing Nogai language (section)

==History==
The [[Nogais]], descended from the peoples of the [[Golden Horde]], take their name and that of their language from the grandson of [[Genghis Khan]], [[Nogai Khan]], who ruled the nomadic people west of the [[Danube]] toward the end of the 13th century. They then settled along the [[Black Sea]] coast of present-day [[Ukraine]].

Historically, Nogai was a spoken language. When speakers wanted to write, they utilized the [[Cuman language|Kypchak]] or [[Chagatai language|Chagatai]] languages, which were similar to Nogai and were written in the [[Perso-Arabic]] script. In 1928, a [[Latin script|Latin alphabet]] was introduced. It was devised by the Nogai academic {{ill|Abdul-Khamid Shershenbievich Dzhanibekov|ru|Джанибеков, Абдул-Хамид Шершенбиевич}} (Djanibek), following principles adopted for all [[Turkic languages]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nogaysky yazyk {{!}} Malye yazyki Rossii |script-title=ru:Ногайский язык {{!}} Малые языки России |trans-title=Nogai language {{!}} Minor languages of Russia |url=https://minlang.iling-ran.ru/lang/nogayskiy-yazyk |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=minlang.iling-ran.ru |language=ru}}</ref>

In 1938, a transition to the [[Cyrillic alphabet]] began. The [[orthography]] based on the Latin alphabet was alleged to be an impediment to learning Russian.

The expulsion of the Nogais from Ukraine in the nineteenth century separated Nogai speakers into several geographically isolated groups. Some went to [[Turkey]] and [[Romania]], while others stayed within the [[Imperial Russia|Russian Empire]], settling in northern Dagestan and neighbouring areas of [[Chechnya]] and [[Stavropol Kray]].

The Nogai language has disappeared very rapidly in Turkey. Today, it is mostly spoken by the older generation; however, there are still younger speakers, as there are some villages in Turkey where it is a common mode of communication. In the [[Soviet Union]] the language of instruction in schools was Russian, and the number of speakers declined there also. Recent estimates place the total number of Nogai speakers at about 80,000.

In 1973, two small Nogai-language newspapers were being published, one in Karachay–Cherkessia and another in the Dagestan Autonomous SSR (''Ленин йолы''), but most speakers never heard of these publications, and the papers did not reach Nogai villages.

Nogai is now part of the school curriculum from the 1st to the 10th year in the Nogai District of Dagestan. It is also taught at the Karachayevo-Cherkess Pedagogical School and the national branch of the Pedagogical Institute.