Chuvash
Americannoun
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a member of a people of mixed Uralic and Altaic ancestry who live in the middle Volga basin, mainly in the Chuvash Autonomous Republic.
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the language of the Chuvash, generally considered Turkic though markedly divergent from all other modern Turkic languages.
noun
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a Turkic ethnic people living chiefly in the middle Volga region of Russia
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the language of this people, generally classed within the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
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Chuvash Republic head Oleg Nikolaev confirmed that Cheboksary had been hit, reporting three injuries.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
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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