Khinalug language

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Khinalug
каьтш мицI / kätš micʼ 
Pronunciation: [kætʃ mit͡sʼ]
Spoken in: Azerbaijan 
Region: Quba
Total speakers: 1,500 ~ 4,000
Language family: North-East Caucasian
 Khinalug
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: cau
ISO 639-3: kjj

Khinalug, also known as Xinalugh or Khinalugh, is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 1,500 to 4,000 people in the villages of Khinalug and Gülüstan in the mountains of northern Azerbaijan.

[edit] References

  • Desheryev, Ju. D. 1959. Grammatika xinalugskogo jazyka. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow.
  • Hewitt, George. 2004. Introduction to the Study of the Languages of the Caucasus. LINCOM, Munich. p. 29.
  • Kibrik, Aleksandr E. 1972. Fragmenty grammatiki xinalugskogo jazyka. Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo Universiteta, Moscow.
  • Kibrik, Aleksandr E. 1994. "Khinalug". In: The Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus, vol. 4; Rieks Smeets (ed.); Caravan Books, Delmar (New York). pp. 367–406.

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