Andi language

Spoken in

• Northeast Caucasian languages Dagestan languages Awaro - ando - didoische languages Andean languages Andean language

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Ani

The Andean language (self- designation: q'wannab micci ) belongs to the - named after her - subset of the Andean languages ​​within the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is spoken by about 10,000 people in the south of the autonomous republic of Dagestan ( Russian Federation); the ethnic population of Andier is however approximately 20,000.

The name Andi goes back to the name of the village Andi.

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The Andean Although at present no written language, but it was written in the Arabic alphabet until 1928, 1928-1938 with the Latin and from 1938 with the Russian alphabet. As written languages ​​are used today Avar and Russian.

Linguistic characteristics

The Andean is a Ergativsprache and has a noun class system.