Tsesian language

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Tsesian ( цезйас мец / cezyas mec )

Spoken in

Dagestan ( Russian Federation )
speaker approx. 15,000
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

cau

ISO 639-3

ddo

Tsesisch / Didoisch (No. 27) in the environment of the Northeast Caucasian language family

Tsesian (also called Didoic ) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by around 15,000 people in southwest Dagestan . Since there is no written language is one uses for written communication of the Avar or Russian , that almost three quarters of Tsesen dominate. Tsesian is not taught in schools. It shows many influences and loanwords from Russian, Avar, Arabic , Persian , Georgian or the Turkic languages ​​of the region.

Tsesian can be divided into the following dialects , which are named after the villages in which they are spoken; the names of the villages are in italics:

  • Assach ( Асах , Asaq ; location ; dialect also as Asach )
  • Zebari ( Цебари , Ceboru ; location ; dialect also as Tsebari )
  • Mokok ( Мокок , Newo ; Location )
  • Kidero ( Кидеро , Kidiro ; location )
  • Sagada ( Сагада , Soƛʼo ; location )

The original and current main distribution area of ​​the language with the villages mentioned is in the Zuntinski district to the northwest of its administrative center, Beshta , where Beshtin , another didoic language, is spoken. The area in the catchment area of ​​the Kitljarta (called Metluda in the lower reaches), a right tributary of the Sulak source river Andijskoje Koisu (Russian for Andean Koisu ) extends directly on the border with Georgia and not far from the border between Dagestan and Chechnya between sometimes over 4000 meters high, northern foothills of the Caucasus main ridge ( Bogos , Achatl and others).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2002 census - data on the official website (Russian, partly English)

literature

  • EA Bokarev: Cezsky jazyk . In: Jazyki narodov SSSR . Vol. 4. Nauka, Moscow 1967, pp. 404-420.

Web links

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