Southern Tat

E261676

Southern Tat is a regional variety of the Tat language spoken by Tat communities in parts of the South Caucasus.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Southern Tat canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional dialect
country Azerbaijan
Russia
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
ethnicGroupAssociated Caucasian Tats
glottologCode tatt1241
glottologName Tat-Southern
hasDialect Absheron Tat
Ismailli Tat
linked to: Ismayilli

Khizi Tat
Quba Tat
linked to: Quba

Shamakhi Tat
hasMorphologicalFeature postpositions
suffixal case marking
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between aspirated and unaspirated stops
vowel length distinctions
hasSyntacticFeature subject–object–verb word order
influencedBy Azerbaijani
Russian
languageBranch Southwestern Iranian languages
languageCodeISO6393 ttt
languageFamily Iranian languages
languageShiftTowards Azerbaijani
minorityLanguageIn Azerbaijan
Russia
region Absheron Peninsula
Ismailli District
linked to: Ismayilli District

Khizi District
Quba District
linked to: Quba

Qusar District
Shamakhi District
linked to: Shamakhi Uyezd
relatedTo Judeo-Tat
Persian
linked to: Persian language

Talysh
spokenBy Tat people
spokenIn Azerbaijan
Russia
South Caucasus
subdivisionOf Tat language
UNESCOStatus definitely endangered
usedIn everyday communication
folk poetry
oral tradition
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tat language hasDialect Southern Tat
Tats hasDialect Southern Tat
Northern Tat closelyRelatedTo Southern Tat
Caucasian Tat hasDialect Southern Tat