Kryts language

Kryts
кърыцIаь мез qryc’ä mez
цIека meз c’eka mez
Region Quba Rayon, Azerbaijan
Ethnicity Kryts
Native speakers
 5,000  (2007)[1]
Northeast Caucasian

  • Lezgic

    • Samur
      • Southern Samur
        • Kryts
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kry
Glottolog kryt1240[2]

Kryts (Kryc) is a Samur language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken in parts of the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan by 6,000 people in 1975.[3] Its dialects are Kryts, Jek, Khaput, Yergyudzh, and Alyk, which are all quite distinct and could be considered separate languages.[3]

Kryts is endangered[4][5], classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Kryts at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kryts". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ethnologue entry for Kryts
  4. ↑ Published in: Encyclopedia of the world’s endangered languages. Edited by Christopher Moseley. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 211–280.
  5. ↑ The sociolinguistic situation of the Kryz in Azerbaijan
  6. ↑ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger

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