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Kaitag language
Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan, Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with with the Kajtak dialect of Judeo-Tat.
Kaitag (Kaitag: Хайдакьан кув [χɑjdɑqʼɑn kʰuβ]; also Kaidak, Karakaitak, Karkaidak, Qaidaqlan) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan, Russia. It has sometimes been considered a divergent dialect of Dargwa due to it being part of the Dargin dialect continuum. The Routledge Ethnographic Handbook (2017) divided Kaitag into two dialects: northern (Magalis-Kaitak) and southern (Karakaitak).[2] Recent results of the Association of the Russian Sociolinguists (2021) further developed it into three dialects: Lower Kaitag, Upper Kaitag and Shari.[3]
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Kaitag | |
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Kaidak, Karakaitak, Karkaidak, Qaidaqlan | |
хайдакьан кув | |
Pronunciation | [χɑjdɑqʼɑn kʰuβ] |
Native to | North Caucasus |
Region | Dagestan |
Ethnicity | Kaitags |
Native speakers | approx. 30,000 (2020)[1] |
Northeast Caucasian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xdq |
Glottolog | kajt1238 |
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