Khinalug language

E419341

The Khinalug language is a highly endangered Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Khinalug people in a single mountain village in northern Azerbaijan.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Khinalug language canonical 2
Xınalıq dili 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northeast Caucasian language
endangered language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo no major living language (considered a divergent branch)
country Azerbaijan
surface form: Republic of Azerbaijan
documentationStatus partially documented
endangermentStatus highly endangered
severely endangered
family Northeast Caucasian languages
surface form: Northeast Caucasian
geographicDistribution single mountain village community
glottocode khin1240
hasAlternativeName Khinalug
surface form: Khinalugh

Khinalug
surface form: Khinalugi

Khinlog
Kinalug
Khinalug language
surface form: Xınalıq dili
hasCommunityEthnonym Khinalug people NERFINISHED
hasCommunityName Khinalug
hasLinguisticFeature complex verbal morphology
ergative alignment
noun classes
rich consonant inventory
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
synthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants
pharyngeal consonants
hasSOVOrder true
iso639-3Code kjj
languageBranchStatus often treated as its own branch of Northeast Caucasian
languageFamilyStatus sometimes classified as an isolate within Northeast Caucasian
languageShiftTo Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani
primaryUse oral communication
primaryVillageElevation over 2000 meters above sea level
recognizedAs minority language in Azerbaijan
regionType Caucasus
surface form: Caucasus Mountains
spokenBy Khinalug people NERFINISHED
spokenByPopulation small community
spokenIn Azerbaijan
Khinalug
surface form: Khinalug village
spokenInRegion Quba
surface form: Quba District

northern Azerbaijan
subfamily Khinalug
UNESCOStatus severely endangered
usedInEducation very limited
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

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

Northeast Caucasian languages hasMember Khinalug language
Kryts language closelyRelatedTo Khinalug language
Khinalug language hasAlternativeName Khinalug language
this entity surface form: Xınalıq dili