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| Khinalug | |
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| каьтш мицI / kätš micʼ | |
| Pronunciation | [kætʃ mit͡sʼ] |
| Native to | Azerbaijan |
| Region | Quba |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2007)[1] |
Northeast Caucasian
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| Cyrillic script, Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kjj |
| Glottolog | khin1240 |
| ELP | Khinalugh |
 Khinalug (in Azerbaijan) | |
 Khinalug is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Khinalug (also spelled Khinalig, Khinalugi, Xinalug(h), Xinaliq or Khinalugh) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 3,000 people in the villages of Khinalug and Gülüstan, Quba in the mountains of Quba Rayon, northern Azerbaijan. It forms its own independent branch within the Northeast Caucasian language family.[2]
Khinalug is endangered,[3] and classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[4]
- ^ Khinalug at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Family tree of Northeast Caucasian languages at Ethnologue
- ^ Published in: Encyclopedia of the world’s endangered languages. Edited by Christopher Moseley. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 211–280.
- ^ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger Archived 2009-02-22 at the Wayback Machine