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Tabasaran language

Tabasaran
табасаран чIал tabasaran ҫ̇al
Native to Russia
Region Southern Dagestan
Ethnicity Tabasarans
Native speakers
 130,000 (2010 census)
Northeast Caucasian
  • Lezgic
    • Samur
      • Eastern Samur
        • Lezgi–Aghul–Tabasaran
          • Tabasaran
Official status
Official language in
 Dagestan (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog taba1259
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Tabasaran (also written Tabassaran) is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Lezgic branch. It is spoken by the Tabasaran people in southern part of the Russian Republic of Dagestan. There are two main dialects: North (Khanag) and South Tabasaran. It has a literary language based on the Southern dialect, one of the official languages of Dagestan.

Tabasaran is an ergative language. The verb system is relatively simple; verbs agree with the subject in number, person and (in North Tabasaran) class. North Tabasaran has two noun classes (also dubbed with the term "grammatical gender"), whereas Southern Tabasaran has none (i.e. one fewer than North Tabasaran, because no noun classes means that all nouns belong to the same class).

It is spoken in the basin of Upper Rubas-nir and Upper Chirakh-nir.

Tabasaran is written using Cyrillic.

Note: The letters indicated in orange are encountered only in loanwords from Russian.

Tabasaran is very probably an active language of the fluid-S type. It is reported to have 53 noun cases but see Comrie and Blake.

Uwu aldakurawu "Уву алдакураву" — "You are falling."

Uzuz uwu kkunduzuz "Узуз уву ккундузуз" — "I love you."

Uwu fudžuwa? "Уву фужува?" — "Who are you?"

Fici wuna? "Фици вуна?" — "How are you?"

Zakur ʕürza "Закур гъюрза" — "I'll come tomorrow"

Uzu kana qheza "Узу кана хъэза" — "I'll be back"


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