Chamalal language
| Chamalal | |
|---|---|
| чамалалдуб мичIчI (çamalaldub miçʿçʿ) | |
| Region | Southwestern Dagestan[1] |
| Ethnicity | Chamalal people |
Native speakers | 500 (2010)[2] |
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Northeast Caucasian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
cji |
| Glottolog |
cham1309[3] |
Chamalal is an Andic language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken in southwestern Dagestan, Russia by approximately 500 ethnic Chamalals. It has three quite distinct dialects, Gadyri, Gakvari, and Gigatl.[2]
References
- ↑ Ethnologue language map of European Russia, with Chamalal in the inset with reference number 10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chamalal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chamalal". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Further reading
- Margus Kolga; Igor Tõnurist; Lembit Vaba; Jüri Viikberg (1993). "The Chamalals". The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire.
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