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
Tsova-Tush language attitudes and use
Tsova-Tush language attitudes and use
Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
400-800
Native Speakers Worldwide
Transmission
Transmission 2
Most adults in the community are speakers, but children generally are not.
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Speakers
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Location and Context
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Writing Systems
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Recent Resources
The Wikipedia page for the Batsbi language, otherwise known as Bats.
Ein Grammatik der Thusch-Sprache, auch als Bats oder Batsbi bekannt.
– 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.