Endangered Languages Project - Muslim Tat

Muslim Tat

^{[aka Tati, татский язык, თათური ენა]}

Classification: Indo-European

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Tati, татский язык, თათური ენა, Թաթերեն, zuhun tati, зуун тати, Mussulman Tati, Tat,
CLASSIFICATION		Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western Iranian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ttt
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Aruskush-Daqqushchu Lahyj Balakhani Devechi Qyzyl Qazma Qonaqkend Absheron Surakhani Northern Tats Malham Quba
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Europe and North Asia” (211-282) . Tapani Salminen (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

Severely endangered

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

DATE OF INFO: 1989

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

MORE ON VITALITY

The speakers of Tat in Azerbaijan use Azerbaijani in school and for wider communication.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Azerbaijan

More on Orthography

Tat is not written.

PLACES: Caucasia: northern Azerbaijan

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in Syazan, Divichinsk, Kuba,
Konakhkend, Semakh and Ismail regions in the northeast of Azerbaijan as well as on Apsheron peninsula and Baku.

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
28,300
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
18,000 in Azerbaijan (1989 census). 2,300 in Russian Federation (2002 census). Ethnic population: 22,041 in Azerbaijan (A. Kibrik 1990).

PLACES: Iran; Azerbaijan; Russia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Azerbaijan: Widelspread in the mountainous area around Qonaqkend, but may be declining around Baku. Russia: Northern Caucasus (Daghestan); large community in Moscow

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
26,000
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
15,120
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
22,441
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
In 1979 67.4%% of the ethnic population of 22,441, were considered to be native speakers which is approximately 15,120.

DATE OF INFO: 1979

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Scripts (Writing system): none
More on Orthography: The Tats of Azerbaijan have no written language of their own. The only sphere of native culture is an oral folklore.

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: The Tats live in Transcaucasia, in the districts of Siazan, Divichin, Kuba, Konakhkent, Shemakha and Ismaillin, in the city of Baku and on the peninsula of Apsheron, all mainly in the northeast of Azerbaijan.

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press