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| Udi | ||||
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| удин муз, udin muz[needs IPA] | ||||
| Spoken in | Azerbaijan, Georgia | |||
| Region | Azerbaijan (Qabala and Oguz), Russia (North Caucasus), Georgia (Kvareli), and Armenia (Tavush) | |||
| Native speakers | 8,000 (est.)[1] (date missing) | |||
| Language family |
Northeast Caucasian
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| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | udi | |||
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The Udi language, spoken by the Udi people, is a member of the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is believed an earlier form of it was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to current day Azerbaijan.
The language is spoken by about 5,000 people in the Azerbaijani village of Nij in Qabala rayon, in Oghuz rayon, as well as in parts of the North Caucasus in Russia. It is also spoken by ethnic Udis living in the villages of Debetavan, Bagratashen, Ptghavan, and Haghtanak in Tavush Province of northeastern Armenia and in the village of Zinobiani (Oktomberi) in the Kvareli District of the Kakheti province of Georgia.
Udi is endangered,[2] classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[3]
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[edit] Morphology
The Udi grammar is agglutinating with a tendency towards a fusional (flectional) type. Udi agglutination is suffixing, infixing,and rare prefixing. Most of Udi grammatical elements are affixes restricted to specific word class, some are clitics. The grammatical word order is SOV.
Udi does not have gender, but has declension classes.[5]
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|
| i iˤ (y) | u uˤ | |
| ɛ ɛˤ (œ) | ə | ɔ ɔˤ |
| (æ) | ɑ ɑˤ |
[edit] Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lenis | fortis | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||
| Plosive | voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||||
| voiceless | p | t | k | q | |||||
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | qʼ | |||||
| Affricate | voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | d͡ʒː | |||||
| voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | t͡ʃː | ||||||
| ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡ʃʼ | t͡ʃːʼ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | ʃː | x | h | ||
| voiced | v | z | ʒ | ʒː | ɣ | ||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||
| Approximant | l | j | |||||||
[edit] See also
[edit] References
Harris, Alice C. (2002). Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-924633-5.
- ^ The Sociolinguistic Situation of the Udi in Azerbaijan – John M. Clifton, Deborah A. Clifton, Peter Kirk, and Roar Ljøkjell
- ^ Published in: Encyclopedia of the world’s endangered languages. Edited by Christopher Moseley. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 211–280.
- ^ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
- ^ Schulze, Wolfgang (2002): The Udi language http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/The%20Udi%20language.htm
- ^ Harris, Alice (1990): History in Support of Synchrony, Department of Linguistics, SUNY Stony Brook, p. 7 http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/bls/article/viewFile/787/678
- ^ Hewitt, George (2004): Introduction to the Study of the Languages of the Caucasus. LINCOM, Munich. Page 57.
- ^ Consonant Systems of the Northeast Caucasian Languages on TITUS DIDACTICA
[edit] External links
- Appendix:Cyrillic script
- Udi at Ethnologue
- The Udi Language: a grammatical description with sample text — Wolfgang Schulze 2001/2 (University of Munich)
- The Udis
- Historical map
- A Functional Grammar of Udi, Wolfgang Schulze, 2005
- The cognitive dimension of clausal organization in Udi, Wolfgang Schulze, 2000
- The Udi language, Wolfgang Schulze, 2002
- John M. Clifton: The Sociolinguistic Situation of the Udi in Azerbaijan. SIL International, 2005. (PDF-Datei; 206 kB)
