Endangered Languages Project - Botlikh

Botlikh

^{[aka Botlix, Bujxałi mic’c’i, ботлихский язык]}

Classification: Northeast Caucasian

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threatened

Has loans from Avar. In the 20th century Russian has also come to exert a heavy influence. (The Red Book of the Languages of the Russian Federation)

ALSO KNOWN AS		Botlix, Bujxałi mic’c’i, ботлихский язык, буйхалъи мицIцIи, буйхaдалъи мицIцIи, ბოთლიხური ენა
CLASSIFICATION		Northeast Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestanian, Avar-Andic
ORTHOGRAPHY		extended Cyrillic script for Avar
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3; Glottolog
LANGUAGE CODE		bph; botl1242
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Zibirkhalin Botlikh
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Variation in two dictionaries of Botlikh” . George Moroz, Chiara Naccarato, Samira Verhees (2019)

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~5,000-8,000 speakers
Native speakers worldwide

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Some families are shifting to Russian. One reference grammar has been published in Georgian (Gudava, 1962), and two dictionaries (Alekseev & Azaev, 2019; Saidova & Abusov, 2012)
Scripts (Writing system): extended Cyrillic script for Avar
More on Orthography: unwritten

PLACES: Spoken primarily in the villages of Botlikh, Miarso, Ashino, and Ankho in northwestern Daghestan, Russian Federation

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,500
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Koryakov (2006).

DOMAINS OF USE
TRANSMISSION
SPEAKER ATTITUDE: Positive attitudes
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Russia

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
3,000

DATE OF INFO: 1967

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

42.3917,46.1351

COORDINATES

42.6602, 46.2222

Compare Sources (2)

Information from: “Variation in two dictionaries of Botlikh” . George Moroz, Chiara Naccarato, Samira Verhees (2019)