Khinalug language

Khinalug (also spelled Khinalig, Xinalug(h) or Khinalugh) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 1,500 people in the villages of Khinalug and Gülüstan in the mountains of Quba Rayon, northern Azerbaijan. It forms its own independent branch within the Northeast Caucasian language family.^[2]

Khinalug is endangered^[3], classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.^[4]

References

1. ^ Ethnologue report for Khinalug
2. ^ Family tree of Northeast Caucasian languages at Ethnologue
3. ^ Published in: Encyclopedia of the world’s endangered languages. Edited by Christopher Moseley. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 211–280.
4. ^ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger

Further reading

• 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.

External links

• Appendix:Cyrillic script
• Map of languages in Azerbaijan
• Clifton, John M. u.a. 2005. "The Sociolinguistic Situation of the Khinalug in Azerbaijan". SIL International.