Udi language

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The Udi language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Udi people, primarily in Azerbaijan and neighboring regions, and is notable for preserving features of the ancient Caucasian Albanian language.

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Udi language canonical 1
Uti language 1

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instanceOf Northeast Caucasian language
endangered language
natural language
classificationStatus generally accepted as a separate branch within Lezgic
contactInfluenceFrom Armenian language
Azerbaijani language
Georgian language
Russian language
documentation described in detail by linguist Wolfgang Schulze
family Northeast Caucasian languages NERFINISHED
geneticRelation Lezgic branch of Northeast Caucasian
hasAlternativeName Udin language
Uti dagi (historical/older sources)
Udi language
surface form: Uti language
hasCommunity Quba region of Azerbaijan
surface form: Nij, Azerbaijan

Oğuz, Azerbaijan
Zinobiani (Oktomberi), Georgia
hasDialect Nidzh dialect
Oğuz (Oghuz) dialect
Vartashen dialect
hasFeature complex verbal morphology
loanwords from Turkic and Iranian languages
hasMorphologicalFeature case system
postpositions
verbal agreement
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
vowel length distinctions (in some dialects)
historicalRelation Caucasian Albanian language
languageCodeISO639_2 udi
languageCodeISO639_3 udi
notableFeature preserves features of the ancient Caucasian Albanian language
primaryRegion Caucasus
spokenBy Udi people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Russia
Turkey
status severely endangered in some communities
subfamily Lezgic languages NERFINISHED
subgroup Eastern Samur languages
typology agglutinative language
ergative–absolutive alignment (with splits)
usedIn liturgical contexts of Udi Christian communities
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Georgian script (historically, in some contexts)
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Udi language hasAlternativeName Udi language
this entity surface form: Uti language