This article is about the Udi language. For other uses, see Udi.
Udi
удин муз, udin muz[needs IPA]
Native to
Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia
Region
Azerbaijan (Qabala and Oguz), Russia (North Caucasus), Georgia (Kvareli), and Armenia (Tavush)
Ethnicity
Udi people
Native speakers
3,800 in Azerbaijan (2011)[1] 2,270 in Russia (2010), 90 in Georgia (2015)[1]
Language family
Northeast Caucasian
Lezgic
Samur
Eastern Samur
Udi
Early form
Caucasian Albanian
Language codes
ISO 639-3
udi
Glottolog
udii1243
ELP
Udi
Udi is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The Udi language, spoken by the Udi people, is a member of the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family.[2] It is believed an earlier form of it was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to current day Azerbaijan.[3] The Old Udi language is also called the Caucasian Albanian language[4] and possibly corresponds to the "Gargarian" language identified by medieval Armenian historians.[3] Modern Udi is known simply as Udi.
The language is spoken by about 4,000 people in the village of Nij, Azerbaijan, in Qabala District, in Oghuz District, as well as in parts of North Caucasus in Russia. It is also spoken by ethnic Udis living in the villages of Debetavan, Bagratashen, Ptghavan, and Haghtanak in Tavush Province of northeastern Armenia, and in the village of Zinobiani (former Oktomberi) in the Qvareli Municipality of the Kakheti province of Georgia.
Udi is endangered,[5] classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.[6]
^ abUdi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Gippert & Schulze (2007), p. 208.
^ abGippert & Schulze (2007), p. 210.
^Gippert & Schulze (2007), p. 201.
^Published in: Encyclopedia of the world’s endangered languages. Edited by Christopher Moseley. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 211–280.
^UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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