Tabasaran

E111145

Tabasaran is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Tabasaran people in southern Dagestan, Russia.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tabasaran canonical 4

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northeast Caucasian language
agglutinative language
natural language
ancestorOf no known distinct daughter languages
belongsTo Caucasian languages (areal grouping)
surface form: Caucasian languages
closelyRelatedTo Aghul
Lezgian
Rutul
country Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasCaseSystem large number of grammatical cases
hasDialects Northern Tabasaran
Southern Tabasaran
hasFeature noun class distinctions in some analyses
postpositions instead of prepositions
rich verbal morphology
hasGlottocode taba1259
hasISO639-3Code tab
hasLiteraryTraditionSince 20th century
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
ergative alignment
extensive case system
hasNativeName табасаран чӀал
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants
rich consonant inventory
hasSyntacticFeature SOV basic word order
historicalScript Arabic script
Latin-based alphabet
isMinorityLanguageIn Russia
isOfficialLanguageIn Tabasaran District
languageFamily Northeast Caucasian languages
partOf languages of the Russian Federation
region Dagestan
surface form: Southern Dagestan
regulatedBy language policy authorities of Dagestan
spokenBy Tabasaran people
spokenIn Dagestan
Russia
subfamily Lezgian
surface form: Lezgic languages
usedAs language of everyday communication among Tabasaran people
usedBy Tabasaran diaspora communities in other parts of Russia
usedIn local education in Dagestan
local media in Dagestan
writingSystem Cyrillic script

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dagestan hasRecognizedLanguages Tabasaran
Tabasarans ethnicity Tabasaran
Tabasarans autonym Tabasaran
Lezgian languageFamilyNeighbor Tabasaran