Udi language

Udi language

language
name=Udi
удин муз, udin muz
familycolor=Caucasian
states=Azerbaijan, Georgia
region=Azerbaijan (Qabala and Oguz), Russia (North Caucasus), Georgia (Kvareli), and Armenia (Tavush)
speakers=8,000 (est.) [ [http://www.sil.org/silesr/2005/silesr2005-014.pdf The Sociolinguistics Situation of the Udi in Azerbaijan] - John M. Clifton, Deborah A. Clifton, Peter Kirk, and Roar Ljøkjell]
fam1=Northeast Caucasian
fam2=Lezgic
iso2=cau|iso3=udi|notice=nonotice

The Udi language, spoken by the Udi people, is a member of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is believed this was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to current day Azerbaijan.

The language is spoken by about 5,000 people in the Azerbaijani village of Nij in the Qabala rayon, the Oguz rayon, as well as parts of the North Caucasus in Russia. It is also spoken by ethnic Udis living in the villages of Debedavan, Bagratashen, Ptghavan, and Haghtanak in the Tavush province of Armenia and in the village of Zinobiani (Oktomberi) in the Kvareli district of the Kakheti province in Georgia.

Udi is related to Lezgian and Tabasaran. Together with Lak, Dargin and others, they form the group of Lezgic languages.

ounds

Consonants

Vowels [Hewitt, George (2004): "Introduction to the Study of the Languages of the Caucasus". LINCOM, Munich. Page 57.]

ee also

*Languages of the Caucasus

References

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=udi Udi] at Ethnologue
* [http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/udinhalt.htm The Udi Language: a grammatical description with sample text] — Wolfgang Schulze 2001/2 (University of Munich)
* [http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/udis.shtml The Udis]
* [http://linguarium.iling-ran.ru/maps/13.gifHistorical map]


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