Artschin language

Artschin
Spoken in	Republic of Dagestan ( Russian Federation )
speaker	approx. 1,000
Linguistic ; classification	Northeast Caucasian languages Lesgic languages Artschin ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	cau
ISO 639-3	aqc

Artschin language area in Dagestan.

The Artschinische (also Artschibische , own name: tʃ'at arʃatːen ) is of approximately 1,000 people in the south of the Autonomous Republic of Dagestan ( Russian Federation ) spoke. It belongs to the Lesgian subgroup of the ( Northeast Caucasian ) Nacho-Dagestani language family.

The language is named after the place Artschi (b) .

Linguistic characteristics

Artschin is rich in phonemes (81) and is characterized by the phenomenon of prosodic pharyngealization .

It has 8 nominal classes and 16 cases ; it is an ergative language and has a tendency towards the word order subject-object-verb (SOV).

literature

George Hewitt: Introduction to the Study of the Languages of the Caucasus . LINCOM Europe, Munich 2004, p. 28.
Aleksandr E. Kibrik et al .: Opyt strukturnogo opisanija arčinskogo jazyka (vol. 1–3), Arčinskij jazyk - teksty i slovari (vol. 4). Moscow University Publishing House, Moscow 1977. (in Russian)

Web links

Wiktionary: Artschinisch - explanations of meanings, word origins , synonyms, translations