Lezgin

E600269

Lezgin is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Lezgin people in southern Dagestan (Russia) and northern Azerbaijan.

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Label Occurrences
Lezgin canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Lezgic language
Northeast Caucasian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Aghul NERFINISHED
Rutul NERFINISHED
Tabasaran NERFINISHED
Tsakhur NERFINISHED
ethnicLanguageOf Lezgin people NERFINISHED
hasCurrentScript Cyrillic script NERFINISHED
hasDialects multiple regional dialects
hasGlottocode lezg1247
hasGlottologName Lezgian NERFINISHED
hasHistoricalScript Arabic script NERFINISHED
Latin script
hasISO6391Code none
hasISO6392Code lez
hasISO6393Code lez
hasLinguisticTypology head-final language
hasMinorityLanguageStatusIn Azerbaijan NERFINISHED
Russia NERFINISHED
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNativeName lezgi č’al NERFINISHED
лезги чӏал NERFINISHED
hasNumberOfCases many grammatical cases
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants
pharyngeal consonants
rich consonant inventory
hasStandardFormBasedIn Dagestan NERFINISHED
hasWordOrder SOV
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable or threatened
isOfficialLanguageIn none
isTaughtAt some universities in Russia
languageBranch Lezgic
languageFamily Northeast Caucasian languages NERFINISHED
primaryCountry Azerbaijan NERFINISHED
Russia NERFINISHED
region Caucasus
Northeast Caucasus NERFINISHED
spokenIn Azerbaijan NERFINISHED
Dagestan NERFINISHED
Republic of Dagestan NERFINISHED
Russia NERFINISHED
northern Azerbaijan
southern Dagestan
subclassOf Lezgic branch of Northeast Caucasian languages
usedInEducationAt primary school level in Dagestan
usesCaseSystem ergative–absolutive alignment
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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