Khinalug language
Encyclopedia
Khinalug 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.
Khinalug is endangered
, classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO
's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
Northeast Caucasian languages
The Northeast Caucasian languages constitute a language family spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, northern Azerbaijan, and in northeastern Georgia, as well as in diaspora populations in Russia, Turkey, and the Middle East...
language spoken by about 1,500 people in the villages of Khinalug and Gülüstan
Gülüstan
Gülüstan or Gioulistan or Gyulyustan or Gyulistan may refer to:* Gülüstan, Goranboy, Azerbaijan* Gülüstan, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan* Nor Aznaberd, Armenia...
in the mountains of Quba Rayon, northern Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
. It forms its own independent branch within the Northeast Caucasian language family.
Khinalug is endangered
Endangered language
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use. If it loses all its native speakers, it becomes a dead language. If eventually no one speaks the language at all it becomes an "extinct language"....
, classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
's 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.