Language belonging to the Lezgic group of the Northeast Caucasian language family
Budukh
Будад мез budad mez
Native to
Azerbaijan
Region
Quba Rayon
Ethnicity
1,000 Budukhs (1990)[1]
Native speakers
200 (2010)[1]
Language family
Northeast Caucasian
Lezgic
Samur
Southern Samur
Budukh
Language codes
ISO 639-3
bdk
Glottolog
budu1248
ELP
Budukh
Budukh is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]
Budukh or Budugh (Будад мез, Budad mez[3]) is a Samur language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken in parts of the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan. It is spoken by about 200 of approximately 1,000 ethnic Budukhs.[1]
Budukh is a severely endangered language,[4][5] and classified as such by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[2]
^ abcBudukh at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ abUNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger Archived 22 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^"The Budukhs". The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire.
^Published in: Encyclopedia of the world’s endangered languages. Edited by Christopher Moseley. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 211–280.
^The sociolinguistic situation of the Budukh in Azerbaijan
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