Andi language
Andi | |
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къIaваннаб мицци qwavannab micci[1] | |
Region | Southern Dagestan |
Ethnicity | Andi |
Native speakers | 5,800 (2010 census)[2] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ani |
Glottolog |
andi1255 [3] |
Andi is a Northeast Caucasian language belonging to the Avar–Andic branch spoken by about 5,800 ethnic Andi (2010). There are four dialects, Munin, Rikvani, Kvanxidatl, and Gagatl, which appear quite divergent. Speakers generally use Avar or Russian as their literary language(s).[2]
References
- ↑ Margus Kolga; Igor Tõnurist; Lembit Vaba; Jüri Viikberg (1993). "The Andis". The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire.
- 1 2 Andi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Andi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Further reading
- Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 11
- Церцвадзе Ил. Андийский яз. Тб., 1965 (на груз. яз.);
- Алексеев М. Е. Андийский язык // Языки мира. Кавказские языки. М., 1999.
- Этимология 1539 андийских слов в БД «StarLing database server» Сергея Старостина
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