"Their [Tsova Tush] language, known as Batsbi or Bats, is spoken in approximately half of the village of Zemo Alvani... There is also a generational gap. [According to Revaz Orbetishvili,] ‘Some youth in their late twenties speaks Batsbi, but teenagers can’t speak it at all. The language is headed towards a disaster.’"

"For centuries, Batsbi served the community as a spoken language, while Georgian was used for writing and higher domains such as religion. The situation of stable bilingualism began to change with Georgian slowly replacing Batsbi as the spoken language. ... One of the factors is the high degree of intermarriages between Tsova Tush men and women from different villages, making Georgian a natural choice for a language of communication between family members."

Older speakers were more likely than younger speakers to report using Tsova-Tush.

Older speakers reported using Tsova-Tush in a more diverse set of domains than younger speakers.
– Domains of use fell along a scale (see e.g., Blommaert 2007) where Tsova-Tush is used the least at translocal levels (doctor
and work) and increasingly more often in more local levels.
– Even in the most local levels, with spouse or parents, Tsova-Tush was either always or never used.
– Reported use was greater with extended family than with children.

"Batsbi (also known as Bats or Tsova-Tush) is a severely endangered language of the Nakh branch of the Nakh-Dagestanian language family."

"All Batsbi people speak Georgian, and many also speak Russian; none of these three languages is related to the others. For several generations Batsbi people have attended schools taught in Georgian."

"Only the older generation (older than 50) has a perfect competence of the language; younger adults can understand and speak it but their lexical competence is decreasing"