Akhvakh language

Akhvakh language

The Akhvakh language is one of the Northeast Caucasian languages. It is spoken by less than 1,000 people and has two dialects, a northern and a southern dialect, which are not mutually intelligibleFact|date=August 2008 and should probably be classified as separate languages.

A few publications have been made in the Akhvakh language, but for the most part speakers of Akhvakh have adopted Avar as their literary language.

ources

*Wixman, Ronald. "The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook". (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 8
*Olson, James S., "An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires". (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994) p. 25-26


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