Lezgic languages

 ( Lezgian Languages ) 

The Lezgic languages (also Lezgian or Lezghian) are one of seven branches of the Northeast Caucasian language family. Lezgian language and Tabasaran are literary languages. Khinalug may either be Lezgic or an independent branch of the Northeast Caucasian family.

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Classification

• Peripheral: Archi language – 1,700 speakers 7. НАСЕЛЕНИЕ НАИБОЛЕЕ МНОГОЧИСЛЕННЫХ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОСТЕЙ ПО РОДНОМУ ЯЗЫКУ
• Samur Languages in the Caucasus, by Wolfgang Schulze (2009) (Nuclear Lezgic)
• Eastern Samur
• Caucasian Albanian † – extinct
• Udi language – 6,600 speakers
• Lezgin–Aghul–Tabasaran
• Lezgian language – 410,000 speakers
• Aghul language – 33,200 speakers
• Tabasaran – 143,600 speakers
• Southern Samur
• Kryts language – 5,000 speakers
• Budukh language – 200 speakers
• Jek language – 1,500 speakers
• Western Samur
• Rutul language – 36,400 speakers
• Tsakhur language – 22,300 speakers

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The voicing of ejective consonants The Lezgic languages are relevant to the glottalic theory of Indo-European, because several have undergone the voicing of ejectives that have been postulated but widely derided as improbable in that family. The correspondences have not been well worked out (Rutul is inconsistent in the examples), but a few examples are:

• Non-Lezgic: Avar ; Lezgic: Rutul , Tsakhur 'name'
• Non-Lezgic: Archi , Lak ; Lezgic: Rutul , Tabassaran , Aɡul 'beard'
• Non-Lezgic: Avar ; Lezgic: Tabassaran 'moon'

A similar change has taken place in non-initial position in the Nakh languages.Paul Fallon, 2002. The synchronic and diachronic phonology of ejectives, p 245.

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See also

• Languages of the Caucasus
• Northeast Caucasian languages

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External links

• Lezgic basic lexica at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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