Archi language
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Archi /ɑːˈtʃiː/[3] is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Archis in the village of Archib, southern Dagestan, Russia, and the six surrounding smaller villages.
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Archi | |
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аршаттен чӏат | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Archib, Dagestan |
Native speakers | 970 (2010 census)[1] |
Cyrillic script (developed in 2006 based on the Avar alphabet) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | aqc |
Glottolog | arch1244 |
ELP | Archi |
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It is unusual for its many phonemes and for its contrast between several voiceless velar lateral fricatives, /𝼄, 𝼄ʷ, 𝼄ː, 𝼄ːʷ/, voiceless and ejective velar lateral affricates, /k͡𝼄, k͡𝼄ʷ, k͡𝼄ʼ, k͡𝼄ʷʼ/, and a voiced velar lateral fricative, /ʟ̝/. It is an ergative–absolutive language with four noun classes[4] and has a remarkable morphological system with irregularities on all levels.[5] Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root.[6]