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Kumyk (къумукъ тил qumuq til) is a Turkic language spoken by about 365000 speakers (the Kumyks) in the Dagestan republic of Russian Federation.Irchi Kazak (Yırçı Qazaq; born 1839) is usually considered to be a founder of Kumyk literature. Kumyk was written using Arabic script until 1928 Latin script from 1928–1938 and Cyrillic script since then.The first regular newspapers and magazines appeared in 1917–18.
