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Avar Language
Авар мацӀ
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ВорчӀами!
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● Avar is a region of Dagestan whose population spreads to Azerbaijan, shown here as region 7
● Dagestan has 6 literary languages including Avar which has more than 780,000 speakers worldwide.
Avar
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Avar Language
● Cyrillic alphabet (has a history of Georgian and Arabic alphabet too)
● Avar is an ergative language● The Caucasian Avar language possibly has
some affinity with ancient Mesopotamian agglutinative languages like Hurrian, Sino-Tibetan and Ket
● Belongs to Avar-Andi-Tsez subgroup of the Alarodian Northeast Caucasian (or Nakh-Dagestanian) language family
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Northeast Caucasion Languages
Schulze (2009)
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East Caucasian Language family
Latest attempt at internal classification. (Schulze (2009))
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Traditional classification
The Avar-Andic-Tsezic Languages are spoken in the Northwest Dagestan highlands and western Dagestan.
Avar is the lingua franca for these languages, and the only literary language.
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Dialects of Avar● There are two main dialect groups:● The northern, which includes Khunzakh,
Kazbek, Gunib, Gumbet and others;● The southern, which includes Andalal, Gidatl',
Antsukh, Charoda, Tlyarata, Cumada, Cunta and others.
● Avar has fifteen spoken dialects: Avar, Bagulal, Chamalal, Budukh, Botlikh, Andi, Godoberi, Tindi, Karati, Akhvakh, Dido, Khvarshi, Ginukh, Hunzib, and Bezhiti, each named after its speaking tribe.
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ReferencesSCHULZE, Wolfgang (2009), "The Languages of the Caucasus"