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Southern Samur languages

Lezgic
Geographic
distribution
Dagestan, Azerbaijan
Linguistic classification Northeast Caucasian
Subdivisions
  • Archi (Peripheral Lezgic)
  • Samur (Nuclear Lezgic)
Glottolog lezg1248  (Samur)
arch1244  (Archi)
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  Lezgic

The Lezgic languages are one of seven branches of the Northeast Caucasian language family. Lezgian and Tabasaran are literary languages.

The Lezgic languages are relevant to the glottalic theory of Indo-European, because several have undergone the voicing of ejectives that have been postulated but widely derided as improbable in that family. The correspondences have not been well worked out (Rutul is inconsistent in the examples), but a few examples are:

A similar change has taken place in non-initial position in the Nakh languages.


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