Chuvan language

{{Short description|Extinct Yukaghir language of Siberia}}

{{Distinguish|text = the Chuvash language}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Chuvan

| altname = Chuvantsy

| ethnicity = 900 Chuvans (2020)

| states = Russia

| region = Anadyr River basin of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

| extinct = late 19th century

| ref =

| familycolor = Palaeosiberian

| fam1 = Yukaghir

| fam2 = Eastern Yukaghir?

| iso3 = xcv

| glotto = chuv1256

| glottorefname =

| linglist = xcv

| map = Yukaghir map.svg

| mapcaption = Pre-contact distribution of Chuvan (red) and other Yukaghir languages

| glottoname = Chuvantsy

}}

Chuvan ({{langx|ru|Чуванский язык}}) is an extinct Yukaghir language of Siberia, part of a dialect continuum with the two surviving languages.Tailleur O. G., Le dialecte tchouvane du youkaghir, "Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher", Wiesbaden, 1962, Bd 34. It was most likely last spoken in the 19th century.{{Cite web |last=Janhunen |first=Juha |last2=Salminen |first2=Tapani |date= |title=Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html#Chuvan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211093750/http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html#Chuvan |archive-date=2019-02-11 |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=helsinki.fi}} Already in the 1860s, no more speakers of Chuvan could be located.{{Cite web |title=О КМНС |url=https://atlaskmns.ru/page/ru/lang_chuvancy_all.html |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=atlaskmns.ru}} Chuvan was widespread in the lower region of the Anadyr River (near Chuvanskoye), spoken by Chuvans. The translations of 22 sentences, recorded in 1781 by I. Benzig, and 210 words written by Fyodor Matyushkin in 1821 have been preserved.Matyushkin FF, Collection of the words of the Chuvansky and Omok languages, in: Vrangel F.P., Journey through the northern shores of Siberia and along the Arctic Ocean, accomplished in 1820-1824, Part 2, Additions, St. Petersburg, 1841;{{Cite journal |last=Nikolaeva |first=Irina |date=2008 |title=Chuvan and Omok Languages? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40997572 |journal=Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics |volume=33 |pages=313–336 |issn=0169-0124}} Chuvan descendants are known to have spoken a distinct dialect of Russian.{{Cite journal |last=Вахтин |first=Н. Б. |title=Языковая смерть в функциональном аспекте: особенности функционирования марковского говора |url=https://eusp.org/sites/default/files/archive/et_dep/sborniki/trudy1/272_291.pdf |journal=Труды факультета этнологии |issue=1 |pages=272{{subst:endash}}291}}