Also Known As:
удин муз, удинский язык, უდიური ენა, udin muz, Udi dili, Uti, Udin
Dialects & Varieties
- Zinobiani
- Nidzh
- Oghuz
"Svan/Udi/Tsova-Tush" DoBES Project
Gippert, Jost, Wolfgang Schultze and Manana Tandashvili. 2006. ""Svan/Udi/Tsova-Tush" DoBES Project." Online: http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/svan.
Severely Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Transmission
Transmission 4
Many of the grandparent generation speak the language, but younger people generally do not.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
8,100
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"...all teaching is in Azeri; no classes are given in Udi. The last years have seen a growing interest in the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Udi people due to an increasing debate on the ethnic layers in Azerbaijan."
Location and Context
Countries
Georgia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia
Location Description
In Azerbaijan: Nidzh/Nij, Oghuz; in eastern Georgia: Zinobiani
Government Support
No results found.
Institutional Support
Scientific Research center of Caucasian Albania in Baku since 2000
Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Georgian, Azeri, Russian, Armenian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
No results found.
Writing system:
Latin, Cyrillic
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
"A modified (however informal) Cyrillic graphic tradition sporadically develops, opposing itself to the now Latin based tradition of Azeri."
Recent Resources
A historical overview of the Udi language.
Russian phrases with Udi equivalents, including morpheme-by-morpheme glosses
Cyrillic and Latin alphabets for Udi. Удинская письменность на основе кириллицы и латиницы