Back Алезгьын бызшәа Abkhazian Bahsa Lezgi ACE اللغة الليزغينية Arabic لغه ليزغينيه ARZ Idioma lezgianu AST Лезги мацӀ AV Ləzgi dili Azerbaijani Лезгінская мова Byelorussian Лезгински език Bulgarian Lezgieg Breton
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| Lezgian | |
|---|---|
| Lezgi, Lezgin | |
| лезги чӏал lezgi č’al | |
| Pronunciation | [lezɡi tʃʼal] |
| Native to | North Caucasus |
| Region | Dagestan and Azerbaijan |
| Ethnicity | Lezgins |
Native speakers | 630,000 (2020)[1] |
| Cyrillic, Latin (historically) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Russia
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | lez |
| ISO 639-3 | lez |
| Glottolog | lezg1247 |
 Distribution of the Lezgin language in North Caucasus | |
 Lezgian is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Lezgian, also called Lezgi or Lezgin /ˈlɛzɡiːn/,[2][3] is a Northeast Caucasian language. It is spoken by the Lezgins, who live in southern Dagestan (Russia); northern Azerbaijan; and to a much lesser degree Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Kazakhstan; Turkey, and other countries. It is a much-written literary language[citation needed] and an official language of Dagestan. It is classified as "vulnerable" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[4]
- ^ Lezgian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Bauer, Laurie (2007). The Linguistics Student's Handbook. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- ^ Babak, Vladimir; Vaisman, Demian; Wasserman, Aryeh (23 November 2004). Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbaijan: Sources and Documents. Routledge. ISBN 9781135776817.
- ^ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Archived February 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
