Chu•vash
Pronunciation: (ch-väsh' Russ. chy-väsh'), [key]
— pl. Chu•vash•es, Chu•va•shi Chu•vash
- a member of a people of mixed Uralic and Altaic ancestry who live in the middle Volga basin, mainly in the Chuvash Autonomous Republic.
- the language of the Chuvash, generally considered Turkic though markedly divergent from all other modern Turkic languages.
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