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Bats | |
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Batsba Moṭṭ ბაცბა მოტტ | |
Native to | North Caucasus |
Region | Zemo-Alvani in Kakheti |
Native speakers | (500 cited 1997)[1] far fewer than 3,000 active (2007) |
Georgian script[2] | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bbl |
Glottolog | bats1242 |
ELP | Batsbi |
Bats (Batsbur Mott' or Batsba Moṭṭ, also Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, or Tsova-Tush) is the endangered language of the Bats people, a North Caucasian minority group. It is part of the Nakh family of Northeast Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000 speakers in 1975.
There is only one dialect. It exists only as a spoken language, as Bats people use Georgian as their written language. The language is not mutually intelligible with either Chechen or Ingush, the other two members of the Nakh family.