Khinalug language
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| Khinalug каьтш мицI / kätš micʼ |
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| Pronunciation: | [kætʃ mit͡sʼ] | |
| Spoken in: | Azerbaijan | |
| Region: | Quba | |
| Total speakers: | 1,500 ~ 4,000 | |
| Language family: | North-East Caucasian Khinalug |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | cau | |
| ISO 639-3: | kjj | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Khinalug, also known as Xinalugh or Khinalugh, is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 1,500 to 4,000 people in the villages of Khinalug and Gülüstan in the mountains of northern Azerbaijan.
[edit] References
- Desheryev, Ju. D. 1959. Grammatika xinalugskogo jazyka. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow.
- Hewitt, George. 2004. Introduction to the Study of the Languages of the Caucasus. LINCOM, Munich. p. 29.
- Kibrik, Aleksandr E. 1972. Fragmenty grammatiki xinalugskogo jazyka. Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo Universiteta, Moscow.
- Kibrik, Aleksandr E. 1994. "Khinalug". In: The Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus, vol. 4; Rieks Smeets (ed.); Caravan Books, Delmar (New York). pp. 367–406.
