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Chuvash

American  
[choo-vahsh, chyoo-vahsh] / tʃuˈvɑʃ, tʃyuˈvɑʃ /

noun

plural

Chuvashes, Chuvashi,

plural

Chuvash

  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.

Chuvash British  
/ tʃʊˈvɑːʃ /

noun

  1. a Turkic ethnic people living chiefly in the middle Volga region of Russia

  2. the language of this people, generally classed within the Turkic branch of the Altaic family

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In the Chuvash Republic, Anna Nikolayev, 62, a widowed peasant woman, tugged at her handkerchief and sobbed.

From Time Magazine Archive

They also actively solicit the votes of the nationalist and elitist Muslims of the industrialized Volga - mainly the Tatars, Bashkirs and Chuvash.

From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Vaknin, Samuel

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