Lezgian

E112561

Lezgian is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Lezgin people in southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Lezgian canonical 6
Lezgian language 5
Lezgic languages 4

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northeast Caucasian language
agglutinative language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Agul language
surface form: Aghul language

Rutul language
Khwarshi language
surface form: Tabasaran language
countryStatus minority language in Azerbaijan
minority language in Russia
ethnicGroup Tabasaran people
surface form: Lezgin people
family Northeast Caucasian languages
surface form: Northeast Caucasian language family
hasCaseNumber large number of grammatical cases
hasDialects Akhty dialect
Kuba dialect
Kurakh dialect
Samur dialect
hasStandardForm literary Lezgian
historicalScript Arabic script
Latin script
languageCodeISO639-1 none
languageCodeISO639-2 lez
languageCodeISO639-3 lez
languageFamilyNeighbor Avar
Rutul
Tabasaran
Tsakhurs
surface form: Tsakhur
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani

Russian
morphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
ergative alignment
extensive case system
phonologicalFeature ejective consonants
rich consonant inventory
region Caucasus
script Cyrillic script
spokenIn Azerbaijan
Dagestan
Russia
northern Azerbaijan
southern Dagestan
standardizationCenter Dagestan
subfamily Lezgic branch
syntacticFeature SOV basic word order
typologicalFeature head-final language
postpositional language
usedIn education at local level in Dagestan
local media in Dagestan
writingSystemDirection left-to-right

Referenced by (16)

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

Derbent languageUsed Lezgian
Northeast Caucasian languages hasSubfamily Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgic languages
Northeast Caucasian languages hasMember Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgian language
Dargin closelyRelatedTo Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgian languages
Tabasaran subfamily Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgic languages
Tabasaran closelyRelatedTo Lezgian
Lezgins language Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgian language
Tsakhurs languageBranch Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgic languages
Tsakhur language subfamily Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgic languages
Tsakhur language closelyRelatedTo Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgian language
Rutul language closelyRelatedTo Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgian language
Agul language closelyRelatedTo Lezgian
this entity surface form: Lezgian language