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Aghwan

Aghwan was a Nakh-Daghestanian language once spoken in Azerbaijan.

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Aghwan · 40.4°N 47.1°E

Caucasian Albanian (also called Old Udi, Aluan or Aghwan) is an extinct member of the Northeast Caucasian languages. It was spoken in Caucasian Albania, which stretched from current day south Dagestan to Azerbaijan. Linguists believe it is an early linguistic predecessor to the endangered Northeast Caucasian Udi language. The distinct Caucasian Albanian alphabet used 52 letters.

Caucasian Albanian possibly corresponds to the "Gargarian" language identified by medieval Armenian historians. Despite its name, Caucasian Albanian bears no linguistic relationship whatsoever with the Albanian language spoken in Albania, which belongs to the Indo-European family.

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Words in Aghwan

MeaningWordRomanization
mother𐕎𐔴ne
father𐔳𐔴de
child𐕘𐔰𐕙ġar
ear𐔽𐔼ˁi
hand𐕣𐕒𐕡𐔾kul
heart𐕆𐕞𐕡𐕄hüwḳ
blood𐕗𐔼ṗi
water𐕀𐔴xe
wind𐕌𐕒𐕡𐕐muš
stone𐔻𐔴źe
cow𐕖𐕒𐕡𐕙čur
snake𐔱𐕈𐕇båx̣
one𐕚𐔰sa
two𐕗𐕈ṗå
three𐕀𐔼𐔱xib
four𐔱𐔼𐕗biṗ
five𐕇𐕒x̣o
hundred𐔱𐔰𐔹bać̣
I𐔵𐕒𐕡zu
you𐕛𐕒𐕡𐕎vun
we𐔷𐔰𐕎žan
salt𐔴𐔾el
wine𐕔𐔼fi
house𐕄𐕒𐕁ḳod'
book𐕁𐔼𐕗d'iṗ

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