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The Bezhta (or Bezheta) language (Bezhta: бежкьалас миц, bežƛʼalas mic, beƶⱡʼalas mic, pronounced[ˈbeʒt͡ɬʼɑlɑsmit͡s]), also known as Kapucha (from the name of a large village[2]), belongs to the Tsezic group of the North Caucasian language family. It is spoken by about 6,200 people in southern Dagestan, Russia[3]
Bezhta can be divided into three dialects – Bezhta Proper, Tlyadal and Khocharkhotin[3] – which are spoken in various villages in the region. Its closest linguistic relatives are Hunzib and Khwarshi.[4] Bezhta is unwritten, but various attempts have been made to develop an official orthography for the language. The Bezhta people use Avar as the literary language. The first book ever printed in Bezhta was the Gospel of Luke (1999).[5]
^Bezhta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Shirin Akiner, Islamic Peoples of the Soviet Union, 2nd ed. (KPI, Distributed by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986: ISBN 0-7103-0188-X), p. 253.
^ abEthnologue entry for Bezhta
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The Bezhta (or Bezheta) language (Bezhta: бежкьалас миц, bežƛʼalas mic, beƶⱡʼalas mic, pronounced [ˈbeʒt͡ɬʼɑlɑs mit͡s]), also known as Kapucha (from the...
themselves as Bezhta in the 2002 census of Russia. They speak the Bezhtalanguage, but many of them also speak Avar, Russian or other Tsezic languages of their...
Bezhta (or alternatively Bezheta, also called Kapucha or Kapuchin) could refer to: the Bezhtalanguage the Bezhta people "kapuchin" may be a misspelling...
tree for the Tsezic languages: Tsezic languages Tsez–Hinukh Tsez (15,400) Hinukh (550) Bezhta–Hunzib–Khwarshi Bezhta (6200) Hunzib (1840) Khwarshi (1870)...
for Khwarshi were retrieved from Ethnologue. These languages are spoken in the Tsunta and Bezhta areas of Dagestan. Some linguists such as Sergei Starostin...
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
superscript form. This letter nasalizes the preceding sound in the Bezhta and Godoberi language. Modifier letter superscript en can be represented by the following...
important role in the language's grammar. Tenses are marked synthetically on the verbs by means of affixes. As its sister languagesBezhta and Tsez, Hinukh...
The languages of the Soviet Union consist of hundreds of different languages and dialects from several different language groups. In 1922, it was decreed...
Gidatl and Khunzakh and the Bezhta people who were already Muslims. The Hinukh language is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Tsezic subgroup. Beside...
Northeast Caucasian languages. It is most closely related to Bezhta and Khwarshi, according to the latest research. Other Tsezic languages include Tsez and...
Khwarshi (also spelled Xvarshi, Khvarshi) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in the Tsumadinsky-, Kizilyurtovsky- and Khasavyurtovsky districts of...
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inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an example of it, and then finally what language(s) the case...
group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
It is also found in the Dido languages, such as Tsez, Bezhta, and Khwarshi, as well as in the South Caucasian languages, such as Laz or Lazuri (see Laz...
with total number of less than 40,000. Andis Akhvakh Archins Bagvalals Bezhta Botlikhs Chamalals Godoberi Hinukh Hunzibs Khwarshi Karata Tindis Tsez Abazins...
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and over preceded by a verb of motion: I threw the ball on top of the house. Used in Northeast Caucasian languages such as Tsez, Bezhta and Hinuq. v t e...
Central Siberian Yupik (also known as Yuit), a Yupik language of the Eskimo–Aleut family of languages. They are also known as Siberian or Eskimo (Russian:...
Census, there were 1087 Chuvans in Russia. The Chuvan language, which was a Yukaghir language, became extinct in the early 1900s.[citation needed] Many...
considered separate letters in any language (notably vowels with accent marks which are sometimes used in some languages to indicate stress and/or tone)...
sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to the Tsez as well as the Bezhtas, Hinukhs, Khwarshis and Hunzibs, which are also categorized as Avar subgroups...
been published in 38 languages. Languages in which IBT works include: Ibero-Caucasian: Abaza, Abkhaz, Avar, Adygei, Agul, Andi, Bezhta, Chechen, Dargin,...
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