The Chuvash people, are a Turkic ethnic group, a branch of the Oğurs, inhabiting an area stretching from the Idel-Ural region to Siberia.
Old Chuvash men, the beginning of 20th century
Chuvash women in workaday costumes
Chuvash woman in traditional attire
Chuvash girls in traditional costumes
Chuvash is a Turkic language spoken in Volga-Ural region of Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages, one o
Chuvash people
…republic of Chuvashia and the surrounding area, although Chuvash communities may be found throughout Russia as well as in Central Asia. They speak Chuvash, a Turkic language that diverged from other languages in the family more than a millennium ago. Among the Chuvash believers, the majority are Eastern…
Stamp of the Soviet Union, Chuvash people, 1933
A possible scheme for the diachronic development of Chuvash vowels [citation needed] (note that not all the sounds with an asterisk are necessarily separate phonemes).