Botlikh (also spelled Botlix) is an Andic language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken by the Botlikhs in the Buikhe and Ashino villages in southwestern Dagestan, Russia by approximately 5,000 people, according to the 2020 census.[2]
| Botlikh | |
|---|---|
| Буйхалъи мицIцIи/Bujxałi mic’c’i | |
| Native to | North Caucasus |
| Region | Southwestern Dagestan[1] |
| Ethnicity | 3,788 Botlikh people (2020) |
Native speakers | 5,073 (2020 census)[2] |
Northeast Caucasian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bph |
| Glottolog | botl1242 |
| ELP | Botlikh |
 Botlikh is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
References
editFurther reading
edit- Alekseev, M.; Azaev, X. (2019). Botlixsko-russkij slovar' (in Russian). Moscow: Academia.
- Dirr, Adolf (1928). Einführung in das Studium der Kaukasischen Sprachen mit einer sprachenkarte (in German). Leipzig: Verlag der Asia Major.
- Gamzatova, G. G. (2000). Jazyki Dagestana. Jazyki Narodov Rossii (in Russian). Machackala: Rossijskaja Akademija Nauk.
- Gudava, Togo E. (1962). ბოთლიხური ენა: გრამატიკული ანალიზი, ტექსტები, ლექსიკონი [The Botlikh language: Grammatical analysis, texts, lexicon] (in Georgian). Tbilisi: Sak'art'velos SSR mec'nierebat'a akademiis gamomc'emloba.
- Gudava, Togo E. (1976). "Iberijsko-kavkazskie jazyki". Jazyki narodov SSSR (in Russian). Vol. IV. Moskva: Nauka. pp. 293–306.
- Moroz, George; Naccarato, Chiara; Verhees, Samira (14–16 October 2019). Variation in two dictionaries of Botlikh (PDF). Документирование языков и диалектов коренных малочисленных народов России. St. Petersburg. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2022.
- Saidova, P. A.; Abusov, M. G. (2012). Botlixsko-russkij slovar' (in Russian). Makhachkala: IJaLI.
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