Northern Akhvakh
Northern Akhvakh is a Nakh-Daghestanian language spoken in Russia, by about 210 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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The Akhvakh language (also spelled Axvax, Akhwakh) is a Northeast Caucasian language from the Avar–Andic branch. Ethnologue lists 210 speakers based on the 2010 census, but Magomedova and Abulaeva (2007) list 20,000 speakers of the language, and the 2021 Russian census gave 7,521 speakers in Russia. There are also some 1,000–2,000 speakers in Akhvakh-Dere, a village in Zagatala District, Azerbaijan. It is the most divergent out of all of the Andic languages.
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Words in Northern Akhvakh
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ade* | |
| name | ceri* | |
| eye | keha* | |
| ear | hade* | |
| nose | miXa* | |
| tooth | Chilo* | |
| tongue | mici* | |
| hand | retLa* | |
| blood | hini* | |
| bone | ratLi* | |
| skin | xali* | |
| knee | muqhu* | |
| breast | khakha* | |
| liver | ritLetLhi* | |
| water | лълъени | llˢeni |
| fire | Cari* | |
| sun | miLi* | |
| star | cwa* | |
| stone | iCa* | |
| mountain | beCha* | |
| tree | ruSa* | |
| leaf | tLade* | |
| night | raLa* | |
| dog | хве | xʷe |
| fish | ChuXa* | |
| cow | жиᵸво | žı̇̃vo |
| louse | naci* | |
| one | Chebe* | |
| two | keda* | |
| I | dene* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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