Also Known As:
Bats, Tsova-Tush, batsba motjiti, Bac, Tush, Batsaw, Batsi, ბაცბური ენა, წოვათუშური ენა, бацбийский язык, цова-тушинский, цоватский язык, бацбур мотlтl
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
The Wikipedia page for the Batsbi language, otherwise known as Bats.
Ein Grammatik der Thusch-Sprache, auch als Bats oder Batsbi bekannt.
Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
800
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use
Domain Of Use 4
Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.
4
Transmission
Transmission 3
Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.
3
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Batsbi: A Silent Death of a Minority Language
Bibliography of Locations:
Alice C. Harris and Arthur G. Samuel. 2011. "Perception of Exuberant Exponence in Batsbi: Fuctional or Incidental?" In Language, 87: 447-469. Linguistic Society of America. Online: http://muse.jhu.edu.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/journals/language/v087/87.3.harris.html.
Bibliography of Context:
Batsbi: A Silent Death of a Minority Language