Jek language

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The Jek language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Jek people in parts of the Caucasus region, primarily in Azerbaijan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Northeast Caucasian language
natural language
basicWordOrder SOV
belongsToMacroArea Western Asia
country Azerbaijan
documentationLevel poorly documented
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Jek people
hasAlternativeName Dzhek
Jek language of Azerbaijan
Jekki
hasConsonantPhonemes rich inventory
hasDialects Haput dialect
Jek proper
Jekhi dialect
hasFeature ergative alignment
noun classes or genders
hasGlottocode dzhe1238
hasMorphology rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants
pharyngeal consonants
uvular consonants
hasVowelPhonemes relatively small inventory
ISO639-3Code jek
languageBranch Lezgic languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Northeast Caucasian languages NERFINISHED
languageShiftTowards Azerbaijani
Russian
linguisticClassification Nakh-Daghestanian language family NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Khinalug
Kryts
Lezgian NERFINISHED
numberOfSpeakersEstimate a few hundred
primarySettlement Jek village
region Quba
surface form: Quba District
spokenBy several mountain villages communities
spokenIn Azerbaijan
Caucasus region
statusInAzerbaijan minority language
transmission declining intergenerational transmission
typology agglutinative language
UNESCOStatus definitely or severely endangered
usedIn oral communication
usedLessIn formal education
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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