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ALSO KNOWN AS		Hinuq, Hinux, гинухский язык, ჰინუხური ენა, ჰინუზას მეც, гьинузас мец, hinuzas mec, Գինուխերեն, Ginukh, Ginux, Ginukhtsy, Guang,
CLASSIFICATION		Northeast Caucasian, Daghestanian, Tsezic
ORTHOGRAPHY		Cyrillic (unofficial)
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		gin
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Information from: “Sketch Grammar of Hinuq” . Diana Forker , Yuri Koryakov and Yury Lander and Timur Maisak · Mouton de Gruyter

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~600
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
~600
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"I estimate that there are around 600 Hinuq people of who all speak the language... For children growing up in the mountain village Hinuq is first language, because Hinuq isthe most important language used for communication within the village."

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: No official status
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "[Hinuq children] also acquire Tsez or Bezhta if their mother is a Tsez or Bezhta speaker, but normally their command of Hinuq is better. They come into contact with Russian as soon as they use mass media, mostly in the form of television programs, music and Internet. This contact intensifies when they start to attend school. More generally, Russian is the main lingua franca today in Daghestan and used by Hinuq speakers of all ages (except for a small group of illiterate elder women).Before Russians arrived, Avar used to be the lingua franca in the area of Daghestan where Hinuq is spoken. Today it is still the language that Hinuq children learn in school as part of their ‘mother tongue education’."
Scripts (Writing system): Cyrillic (unofficial)
More on Orthography: "Hinuq does not have an official status in Russia and thus officially does not have a script. For scientific publications on Hinuq in Russian the Avar Cyrillic script is used."

PLACES: Russia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Most [speakers] live in the village of Hinuq (Russian: Ginux) in the Caucasian mountains (Cuntinskij Rajon, Daghestan, Russian Federation). Due to the harsh living conditions, in the 1980s Hinuq speakers began to move mainly to the village of Monastirksi in the Daghestanian lowlands. Currently more than 100 Hinuq people live there and their number is constantly growing."

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Ethnic population
200

DATE OF INFO: 1967

DOMAINS OF USE
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Scripts (Writing system): none

PLACES: Dagestan, Hinukh Village

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200-500
Native speakers worldwide

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Scripts (Writing system): none

PLACES: western Daghestan, Hinukh Village

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
548
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
550
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2002 (Census)

PLACES: Russia;

		2007	Europe and North Asia	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	211-282	C. Moseley	London & New York: Routledge			Tapani Salminen	Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD		200-500		100-999		schools and wider communication	Avar, Russian				Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	13		western Daghestan, Hinukh Village
0199255911		2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures			Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York			2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.																	42.1666666667,46.0
	16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub		550	2002 (Census)	100-999							Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Russia;
	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		548		100-999							Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					42.1801,45.977
			World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			200		100-999							Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
			Sketch Grammar of Hinuq	The Caucasian Languages: an International Handbook		Yuri Koryakov and Yury Lander and Timur Maisak	Mouton de Gruyter			Diana Forker			~600	~600		100-999	"I estimate that there are around 600 Hinuq people of who all speak the language... For children growing up in the mountain village Hinuq is first language, because Hinuq isthe most important language used for communication within the village."	Russian: official purposes, education, communication outside the community (and sometimes inside it); Avar: official "mother tongue," taught in schools, used with Avar people; Tsez and Bezhta: used by speakers with relations among Tsez and Bezhta people	Russian, Avar, Tsez, Bezhta	No official status	"[Hinuq children] also acquire Tsez or Bezhta if their mother is a Tsez or Bezhta speaker, but normally their command of Hinuq is better. They come into contact with Russian as soon as they use mass media, mostly in the form of television programs, music and Internet. This contact intensifies when they start to attend school. More generally, Russian is the main lingua franca today in Daghestan and used by Hinuq speakers of all ages (except for a small group of illiterate elder women).Before Russians arrived, Avar used to be the lingua franca in the area of Daghestan where Hinuq is spoken. Today it is still the language that Hinuq children learn in school as part of their ‘mother tongue education’."	Almost all	Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Russia;	"Most [speakers] live in the village of Hinuq (Russian: Ginux) in the Caucasian mountains (Cuntinskij Rajon, Daghestan, Russian Federation). Due to the harsh living conditions, in the 1980s Hinuq speakers began to move mainly to the village of Monastirksi in the Daghestanian lowlands. Currently more than 100 Hinuq people live there and their number is constantly growing."	42.17642940057645, 45.986961731064795
9985-936922		1993	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire			Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits			http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook		"The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.		200		1967			schools, social spheres	Avar, Russian, Dido				Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		13	Dagestan, Hinukh Village

Hinukh

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Language information by source

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~600

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200-500

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

548

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

550

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Hinukh

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~600

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200-500

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

548

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

550

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