Archi language
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The Archi language is a highly complex, morphologically rich Northeast Caucasian language spoken by a small community in southern Dagestan, Russia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Archi language canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Northeast Caucasian language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alignmentType | ergative–absolutive ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Lezgian language
ONNED1
ⓘ
Tabasaran language ⓘ |
| communitySize | small mountain village community ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| documentedBy |
linguist Dunstan Brown
ⓘ
linguist Greville Corbett ⓘ linguist Marina Chumakina ⓘ linguist Michael Daniel ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
shift to Russian
ⓘ
small speaker population ⓘ |
| glottocode | arch1244 ⓘ |
| grammarDescribedIn | A Grammar of Archi ⓘ |
| hasCaseNumber | dozens of morphological cases ⓘ |
| hasDigitalResource |
Archi Language Corpus
ⓘ
Wiktionary ⓘ
surface form:
Archi Online Dictionary
|
| hasFeature |
complex agreement system
ⓘ
complex verbal aspect system ⓘ ergative alignment ⓘ noun classes ⓘ polypersonal agreement ⓘ rich case system ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | aqc ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Northeast Caucasian languages ⓘ |
| linguisticArea |
Caucasian Sprachbund
ⓘ
surface form:
East Caucasian Sprachbund
|
| morphologicalType |
agglutinative
ⓘ
highly synthetic ⓘ |
| morphology |
complex nominal morphology
ⓘ
complex verbal morphology ⓘ extremely rich inflectional morphology ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | approximately 1000 ⓘ |
| oftenWrittenWith | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
| phonology |
ejective consonants
ⓘ
large consonant inventory ⓘ pharyngealized consonants ⓘ |
| primaryLocality | village of Archib ⓘ |
| region | Caucasus ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Archi people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Dagestan
ⓘ
Russia ⓘ southern Dagestan ⓘ |
| status | severely endangered ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Lezgic
ⓘ
surface form:
Lezgic languages
|
| writingSystem | no standardized orthography ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.