Archi language

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The Archi language is a highly complex, morphologically rich Northeast Caucasian language spoken by a small community in southern Dagestan, Russia.

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Archi language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Northeast Caucasian language
endangered language
natural language
alignmentType ergative–absolutive
closelyRelatedTo Lezgian language ONNED1
Tabasaran language
communitySize small mountain village community
country Russia
documentedBy linguist Dunstan Brown
linguist Greville Corbett
linguist Marina Chumakina
linguist Michael Daniel
endangermentCause shift to Russian
small speaker population
glottocode arch1244
grammarDescribedIn A Grammar of Archi
hasCaseNumber dozens of morphological cases
hasDigitalResource Archi Language Corpus
Archi Online Dictionary
linked to: Wiktionary
hasFeature complex agreement system
complex verbal aspect system
ergative alignment
noun classes
polypersonal agreement
rich case system
ISO639-3Code aqc
languageFamily Northeast Caucasian languages
linguisticArea East Caucasian Sprachbund
morphologicalType agglutinative
highly synthetic
morphology complex nominal morphology
complex verbal morphology
extremely rich inflectional morphology
numberOfSpeakers approximately 1000
oftenWrittenWith Cyrillic script
phonology ejective consonants
large consonant inventory
pharyngealized consonants
primaryLocality village of Archib
region Caucasus
spokenBy Archi people
spokenIn Dagestan
Russia
southern Dagestan
status severely endangered
subfamilyOf Lezgic languages
linked to: Lezgic
writingSystem no standardized orthography

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