Archi language

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Archi
аршаттен чӏат
Map of where Archi is spoken (red area)
Native to	Russia
Region	Archib, Dagestan
Native speakers	970 (2010 census)[1]
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Lezgic[2] Archi
Writing system	Cyrillic script (developed in 2006 based on the Avar alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aqc
Glottolog	arch1244
ELP	Archi
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Archi /ɑːˈtʃiː/^[3] is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Archis in the village of Archib, southern Dagestan, Russia, and the six surrounding smaller villages.

It is unusual for its many phonemes and for its contrast between several voiceless velar lateral fricatives, /𝼄, 𝼄ʷ, 𝼄ː, 𝼄ːʷ/, voiceless and ejective velar lateral affricates, /k͡𝼄, k͡𝼄ʷ, k͡𝼄ʼ, k͡𝼄ʷʼ/, and a voiced velar lateral fricative, /ʟ̝/. It is an ergative–absolutive language with four noun classes^[4] and has a remarkable morphological system with irregularities on all levels.^[5] Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root.^[6]