Social:Tindi language

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Short description: Northeast Caucasian language
Tindi
Идараб мицци Idarab mittsi
Native toNorth Caucasus
RegionSouthern Dagestan
Native speakers
2,200 (2010 census)[1]
Northeast Caucasian
  • Avar–Andic
    • Andic
      • Akhvakh–Tindi
        • Karata–Tindi
          • Botlikh–Tindi
            • Bagvalal–Tindi
              • Tindi
Language codes
ISO 639-3tin
Glottologtind1238[2]

Tindi is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in the Russia n republic of Dagestan. Tindis call their language Idarab mitstsi meaning 'the language of the Idar village'. It is only an oral language; Avar or Russian are used in written communication instead.[1] Tindi vocabulary contains many loanwords from Avar, Turkish, Arabic, and Russian.[3] It has approximately 2,150 speakers.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tindi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Tindi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tind1238. 
  3. ↑ Akiner, Shirin (1986) (in en). Islamic Peoples Of The Soviet Union. Routledge. pp. 264. ISBN 978-1-136-14266-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=LUe0AAAAQBAJ. 

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