Khunzakh dialect

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The Khunzakh dialect is a regional variety of the Avar language spoken in and around the village of Khunzakh in Dagestan, Russia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Avar dialect
dialect
belongsTo Avar dialect continuum
linked to: Avar language
country Russia
ethnicGroup Avar people
geographicDistribution village of Khunzakh and surrounding areas
hasAlternativeName Khunzakh Avar dialect
hasAncestor Old Avar
linked to: Avars

Proto-Northeast-Caucasian
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
case-rich nominal system
ergative alignment
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants
rich consonant inventory
vowel length distinctions
hasStatus regional dialect
hasSyntacticFeature SOV basic word order
isSpokenBy Avars
inhabitants of Khunzakh
languageBranch Avar–Andic languages
languageCode ava
languageFamily Northeast Caucasian languages
locatedIn Caucasus
mutuallyIntelligibleWith standard Avar
partOf Avar language
region North Caucasus
script Cyrillic script
spokenIn Khunzakh
Khunzakhsky District
Republic of Dagestan
Russia
usedIn everyday communication in Khunzakh
varietyOf Avar language
writingSystem Avar Cyrillic alphabet

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Avar hasDialect Khunzakh dialect
Boehkhʼul basedOnDialect Khunzakh dialect of Avar
linked to: Khunzakh dialect
магӏарул мацӏ standardVarietyBasedIn Khunzakh dialect area
linked to: Khunzakh dialect