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Lezgian

Northeast Caucasian language that belongs to the Lezgic languages

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Details

Instance of: natural language, modern language
Subclass of: Samur
Country: Russia, Azerbaijan
described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
Ethnologue language status: 4 Educational
female form of label: la langue lezghienne
has grammatical case: postessive case, subdirective case, postdirective case, superelative case, superdirective case, addirective case, inelative case, postelative case
has grammatical mood: prohibitive, subelative case
indigenous to: Qusar District, Dagestan, Guba District, Khachmaz District, Shaki District, Aghdash District, Agsu District, Balakan District, Goychay District, Yevlakh District, Zaqatala District, Zardab District
linguistic typology: stress-timed language
native label: Лезги чIал, лезги
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 633610
short name: лекъаг
topic's main category: Category:Lezgian language
UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable
Wikimedia language code: lez
writing system: Cyrillic script

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