Udi language

Udi
удин муз, udin muz
Pronunciation[udin muz]
Native toAzerbaijan, Russia, Georgia
RegionAzerbaijan (Qabala and Oguz), Russia (North Caucasus), Georgia (Kvareli), and Armenia (Tavush)
EthnicityUdi people
Native speakers
3,800 in Azerbaijan (2011)[1]
1,860 in Russia (2020)[2]
90 in Georgia (2015)[1]
Early form
Cyrillic, Latin, Caucasian Albanian
Language codes
ISO 639-3udi
Glottologudii1243
ELPUdi
  Udi
Udi is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The Udi language, spoken by the Udi people, is a member of the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family.[3] It is believed an earlier form of it was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to current day Azerbaijan.[4] The Old Udi language is also called the Caucasian Albanian language[5] and possibly corresponds to the "Gargarian" language identified by medieval Armenian historians.[4] Modern Udi is known simply as Udi.