Tsachurian language

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Tsachurian

Spoken in

Azerbaijan , Dagestan ( Russian Federation )
speaker approx. 20,000
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Recognized minority /
regional language in 		Dagestani flag Dagestan
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

cau

ISO 639-3

tkr

Tsachurian (proper name: цIаIхна миз [tsʼaʕχna miz]) is a ( Northeast Caucasian ) post-Dagestani language and belongs to the subgroup of the Lesgian languages .

It is spoken by around 13,000 people in Azerbaijan and around 7,000 in the Autonomous Republic of Dagestan ( Russian Federation ).

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In the 1930s, a short-lived experiment with its own written language was started in Azerbaijan . Tsachuric has recently been used again as a written language, with the Cyrillic alphabet being used for writing in Russia . Since 1995 the newspaper Nur has been published in Dagestan in the Tzachurian language.

Modern Tsachurian Alphabet:

А а АI аI Б б В в Г г ГI гI Гъ гъ Гь гь Д д Дж дж
Е е Ё ё Ж ж З з И и Й й К к КI кI Къ къ Кь кь
Л л М м Н н О о ОI оI П п ПI пI Р р С с Т т
ТI тI У у УI уI Ф ф Х х Хъ хъ Хь хь Ц ц ЦI цI Ч ч
ЧI чI Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ы ы ЫI ыI Э э Ь ь Ю ю Я я

Linguistic situation

Tsachurian (No. 14) in the Northeast Caucasian language family

In Azerbaijan Tsachuren use in place of their actual mother tongue and the Azerbaijani . The Tsachurs in Dagestan are mostly multilingual and mostly use Russian as their written language , and more rarely Avar or Azerbaijani.

The Tsachurian language is threatened with extinction as it is under strong assimilation pressure from Azerbaijani and Russian .

Linguistic characteristics

The tsachurian sound system is rich in vowels and consonants . Tsachurian is an ergative language and has 4 nominal classes and 18 cases . The language shows the phenomenon of suffix inclusion . On the verb be Number , Tense and mode selected.

Text sample

Эфирылхъа цIаIхна миз хъигъивчIу

ЦIаIхни миллетни (йихъбишди) тарихей лайикьукана иш вухьа: апрельни санчил 2002 ъэсди сен Республика Дагъыстанни Радиое цIаIхни мизел радиостудие ачмишхьа. Мана миллет гьивааджсди мей, ед'на миз гьивааджесди мей, меденийят инкишаф гьаъасди мейхай, хасди мей. [...]

literature

  • G. Ch. Ibragimov: Cachurskij jazyk . Nauka, Moscow 1990. (in Russian)
  • Aleksandr E. Kibrik (Ed.): Ėlementy cachurskogo jazyka v tipologičeskom osveščenii . Nasledie, Moscow 1999, ISBN 5-201-13328-2 .
  • Wolfgang Schulze: Tsakhur . LINCOM Europe, Munich a. Newcastle 1997. (in English)

See also:

  • George Hewitt: Introduction to the Study of the Languages ​​of the Caucasus . LINCOM Europe, Munich 2004, p. 28.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Dagestan Constitution, "Russian and the Languages ​​of the Peoples of Dagestan" are official languages. In fact , this applies at least to written languages, but also to languages ​​such as Tsachurian, 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. ↑ Published in: Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. Edited by Christopher Moseley. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 211-280.
  3. ^ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages ​​in Danger
  4. ↑ from the newspaper only on www.dagpravda.ru (August 2, 2002)

Web links

Test Wikipedia in Tsachurian