Kryts language
Kryts | |
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кърыцIаь мез ġrəċä mez | |
цIека meз ċeka mez | |
Native to | Azerbaijan |
Region | Quba Rayon |
Ethnicity | Kryts |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2007)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
kry |
Glottolog |
kryt1240 [2] |
Kryts (Kryc) is a Samur language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken in parts of the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan by 6,000 people in 1975.[3] Its dialects are Kryts, Jek, Khaput, Yergyudzh, and Alyk, which are all quite distinct and could be considered separate languages.[3]
Kryts is endangered[4][5], classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[6]
References
- Authier, Gilles. 2009. Grammaire kryz. Paris: Peeters.
- ↑ Kryts at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kryts". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Ethnologue entry for Kryts
- ↑ Published in: Encyclopedia of the world’s endangered languages. Edited by Christopher Moseley. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 211–280.
- ↑ The sociolinguistic situation of the Kryz in Azerbaijan
- ↑ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger Archived February 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
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