This article is about the Northeast Caucasian language. For the Kurdish variety, see Laki dialect. For the Kartvelian language, see Laz language.
Lak
лакку маз (lakːu maz) lakku maz لاکّو ماز
Native to
North Caucasus
Region
Mountain Dagestan
Ethnicity
Laks
Native speakers
152,050 (2010 census)[1]
Language family
Northeast Caucasian
Lak
Writing system
Cyrillic (Lak alphabet) Latin (formerly) Arabic (formerly)
Official status
Official language in
Russia
Dagestan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
lbe
Glottolog
lakk1252
Lak
Lak is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Lak (лакку маз, [lakːu maz] ) is a Northeast Caucasian language forming its own branch within this family. It is the language of the Lak people from the Russian autonomous republic of Dagestan, where it is one of six standardized languages. It is spoken by about 157,000 people.
^Lak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Lak (лакку маз, [lakːu maz] ) is a Northeast Caucasian language forming its own branch within this family. It is the language of the Lak people from the...
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belong to Lak. In all probability, in ancient times Laks lived in the small village of Lak. The toponym "Lak" was adopted only in the Laklanguage. In the...
people were already a minority in their own homeland, like the Buryat ASSR. Language and culture flourished and ultimately institutionalized ethnicity in the...
Jija Lak Minle (Punjabi: ਜੀਜਾ ਲੱਕ੍ ਮਿਣ ਲੈ) is a Punjabi music album. The album features Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot as the lead singers. All lyrics...
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the palochka. In the alphabets of Abaza, Avar, Chechen, Dargwa, Ingush, Lak, Lezgian, Tabassaran, and Tsakhur, it is a modifier letter which signals...
Konomala is an Oceanic language spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. Much of the population has shifted to Siar-Lak. Konomala at Ethnologue (18th...
fields of science and math, instruction was also carried out in the Laklanguage. Although he was initially protected from the purges of the Stalin era...
related to the Cham language of central Vietnam. Đoàn Văn Phúc (1998:24) lists nine dialects of Rade. They are spoken mostly in Đắk Lắk Province in the Central...
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community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan...
Muhammad Abdulkadyrovich Dandamayev (Lak: Мухаммад Абдулкадырович Дандамаев; September 2, 1928 – August 28, 2017 ), Chief Researcher at the Institute...
animals. In the Vietnamese language, bò means "beef" and lúc lác means "shaken". In Cambodia, shaking beef is known as lok lak or loc lac (Khmer: ឡុកឡាក់)...
The velar ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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Sudanic language spoken in Nigeria. It is most closely related to Kabba Laka of Chad. The Hausa refer to the Laka people of Lau as Lakawa. The language was...
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