Udi language

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Udi
Spoken in:	Azerbaijan, Georgia
Region:	Qabala, Oguz (Azerbaijan), Kvareli district (Georgia)
Total speakers:	5,000
Language family:	Northeast Caucasian  Lezgian   Udi
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	cau
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	udi

The Udi language 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 goes back to the 10th century BC. It is spoken by about 5,000 people in the Azerbaijani village of Nij in the Qabala rayon, the Oguz rayon, as well as the village Octomberi in the Kvareli district of Georgia.

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

Contents 1 Sounds 1.1 Consonants 1.2 Vowels 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Sounds

[edit] Consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	p b pʼ	t d tʼ		k g kʼ	q qʼ
Affricate		ʦ ʣ ʦ'	ʧ ʤ ʧ'
Fricative	f v	s z	ʃ ʒ	x ɣ		h
Nasal	m	n
Trill		r
Lateral Approximant		l
Approximant	w		j

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
i iˤ i		u uˤ
e eˤ ø	ə	o oˤ
æ		ɑ ɑˤ

[edit] See also

• Languages of the Caucasus

[edit] References

Harris, Alice C. (2002). Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-924633-5.

[edit] External links

• Udi at Ethnologue
• The Udi Language: a grammatical description with sample text — Wolfgang Schulze 2001/2 (University of Munich)
• The Udis
• Historical map