Tsesian language
Tsesian ( цезйас мец / cezyas mec ) | ||
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Spoken in |
Dagestan ( Russian Federation ) | |
speaker | approx. 15,000 | |
Linguistic classification |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
cau |
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ISO 639-3 |
ddo |
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
- ↑ 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
- Ethnologue, Languages of the World: Tsez
- Map of the small Ando-Avaro-Didoic languages in western Dagestan, Tsesian (Didoic): C-2.