Aghulic language

Aghulic
Spoken in	Dagestan ( Russian Federation )
speaker	over 17,000
Linguistic ; classification	Northeast Caucasian languages Lesgic languages Aghulic ;
Official status
Recognized minority / ; regional language in	Dagestan
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	cau
ISO 639-3	agx

Aghulic (also called Agulic , own name: aġul č′al ) belongs to the Lesgic group of the Northeast Caucasian (post-Dagestan) language family and is spoken by over 17,000 people in the Autonomous Republic of Dagestan ( Russian Federation ).

It is divided into two dialects : Koshan and the actual Aghulic.

In 1990 a written language based on the Cyrillic alphabet was introduced. Previously, only Lesgic and Russian were used as languages for correspondence.

Linguistic characteristics

Aghulic (No. 6) in the environment of the Northeast Caucasian language family

In Aghul there is u. a. the “ umlauts ” ä , ö and ü as well as pharyngealized variants of the vowels a and u . The consonants of Aghul can be divided into voiced , aspirated , geminated and ejective . With 73 consonants, Aghul has the most consonants of any Northeast Caucasian language.

It has 28 cases , including the ergative and 24 locatives .

The verb does not denote person , number or class , but the language uses pre-verbs .

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Ethnologue, Languages of the World: Aghul
Project Etheo: Aghulic Language. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 13, 2007 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.etheo.org

George Hewitt: Introduction to the Study of the Languages of the Caucasus . LINCOM Europe, Munich 2004.

Individual evidence

↑ According to the Dagestan Constitution, "Russian and the Languages of the Peoples of Dagestan" are official languages. In fact , this is true at least for written languages, but also for languages like Aghul, which have only recently been written. See also Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use : Respublika Dagestan. Land of Mountains: Mountain of Languages , 2004 (PDF; 307 kB), p. 5
^ Georgij A. Klimov: Introduction to Caucasian Linguistics. Hamburg 1994, p. 141.

Web links

Test Wikipedia in Aghul

[1] According to the Dagestan Constitution, "Russian and the Languages of the Peoples of Dagestan" are official languages. In fact , this is true at least for written languages, but also for languages like Aghul, which have only recently been written. See also Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use : Respublika Dagestan. Land of Mountains: Mountain of Languages , 2004 (PDF; 307 kB), p. 5

[2] Georgij A. Klimov: Introduction to Caucasian Linguistics. Hamburg 1994, p. 141.