Archi
Archi is a Nakh-Daghestanian language spoken in Russia, by about 970 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Archi (, ar-CHEE) 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, 𝼄ʷː/, tenuis 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 and has a morphological system with irregularities on all levels. Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root.
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Words in Archi
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | лъоннол | lʰonnol |
| name | цӏор | cʼor |
| friend | дос | dos |
| eye | лур | lur |
| tongue | мац | mac |
| hand | хол | xol |
| heart | икӏв | ikʷʼ |
| head | картӏи | kartʼi |
| blood | би | bi |
| liver | диликӏ | dilikʼ |
| water | лъан | lʰan |
| fire | оцӏ | ocʼ |
| moon | бац | bac |
| star | ххьӏоло́шхъӏан | xx̣olóšq̣an |
| sea | лъат | lʰat |
| night | иш | iš |
| bird | ноцӏ | nocʼ |
| cow | хьӏон | x̣on |
| pig | боӏкь | bọkˡʼ |
| louse | нацӏ | nacʼ |
| one | ос | os |
| two | къвеӏ | qʷʼẹ |
| three | лъеб | lʰeb |
| four | ебкъ | ebqʼ |
| five | ллъо | llʰo |
| ten | вицӏ | wicʼ |
| hundred | баш | baš |
| I | зон | zon |
| sugar | чахар | čaxar |
| apple | аӏнш | ạnš |
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