Aghul language

Spoken in

  • Northeast Caucasian languages Lesgische languages Aghulisch

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Aghulisch (also Agul, self- designation: Agul č'al ) belongs to the group of the Northeast Caucasian lesgischen (after - Dagestani ) language family and is in the autonomous republic of Dagestan (Russian Federation) spoken by over 17,000 people.

It is divided into two dialects, Koschanisch and the actual Aghulisch.

Since never a written language was created, serve as Lezgian and Russian languages ​​for correspondence.

Linguistic characteristics

In Aghulischen there is, inter alia, the " umlauts " ä, ö and ü, as well as pharyngalisierte variants of the vowels a and u, the consonants of the Aghulischen can be divided into voiced, aspirated, and ejective geminate.

It has 28 case, including the ergative and 24 locatives.

On neither verb person, number or class are referred to, but the language used Präverbien.

Swell

  • Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World: Aghul
  • Project Etheo: Aghulische language (in Russian)
  • George Hewitt: Introduction to the Study of the Languages ​​of the Caucasus. LINCOM Europe, Munich 2004.
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