Tsakhur language

E259674

The Tsakhur language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Tsakhur people in parts of Azerbaijan and Dagestan.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Tsakhur language canonical 4
Akhvakh language 1
Budukh language 1

Statements (42)

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

Rutul language
countryStatus minority language in Azerbaijan
minority language in Russia
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Tsakhur people
family Northeast Caucasian languages
glottocode tsak1248
hasAlternativeName Caxur
Saxur
Tsakhuri
hasDialects Azerbaijani Tsakhur dialects
Dagestani Tsakhur dialects
hasLinguisticResearch documented in descriptive grammars and dictionaries
hasMorphologicalFeature case system
complex verbal morphology
ergative alignment
noun classes
suffixal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
vowel length distinctions
hasSyntacticFeature SOV basic word order
historicalWritingSystem Arabic script
influencedBy Azerbaijani language
Russian language
ISO639-3 tkr
languageBranch Lezgic
languageFamilyAncestor Northeast Caucasian languages
surface form: Proto-Northeast-Caucasian
primaryUse everyday communication among Tsakhur people
region Caucasus
spokenIn Azerbaijan
Dagestan
Russia
subfamily Lezgian
surface form: Lezgic languages
subgroup Samur languages
usedByReligion Islam
usedInEducation primary level in some Tsakhur communities
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (6)

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

Zakatal Okrug languageGroupPresent Tsakhur language
Northeast Caucasian languages hasMember Tsakhur language
Northeast Caucasian languages hasMember Tsakhur language
this entity surface form: Budukh language
Tsakhurs language Tsakhur language
Rutul language closelyRelatedTo Tsakhur language
Chamalal language closelyRelatedTo Tsakhur language
this entity surface form: Akhvakh language