Didoic languages
As tsezic languages (also tsesische languages , Russ. : Дидойские языки, цезские языки) are referred to five unrelated small languages in the southwest of the Republic of Dagestan ( Russian Federation ) are spoken by almost 23,000 people. Together with the Avar language and the Andean languages , they form the group of the Avaro-Ando-Didoic languages within the group of the Dagestani languages, which in turn belong to the ( Northeast Caucasian) post-Dagestani languages. At the last Russian census in 2002, for the first time since 1926, there was again the opportunity to profess one of the Didoic peoples. The members of these peoples are still counted among the Avars in Russia. The didoic languages include five languages, which in turn are divided into dialects, some of which differ greatly from one another and thus make mutual understanding between the speakers more difficult. The following languages are counted among the Didoic languages (data from the 2002 census; the number of speakers estimated so far in brackets):
- East Didoic languages :
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West Didoic languages :
- Tsesisch (Didoisch) 15,176 (7,000)
- Hinuchic 525 (200; this language is spoken in a single village (Hinuch))
- Chwarschin 128 (2,000)
None of the didoic languages were written down. Avar is used as the written and lingua franca among each other . The developed vowelism (pharyngeal, nasal, short and long vowels) and the complicated consonant system are characteristic of the Didoic languages. The languages belong to the agglutinating languages with strongly developed declination (large number of locatives ) and comparatively simple conjugation .
Web links
- Map of the small Ando-Avaro-Didoic languages in western Dagestan, Didoic languages: C-1 to C-5.
