Archi
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language
Key facts
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Archib , Dagestan
- Ethnicity
- Archi people
- Native speakers
- 1,712 (2020 census)
- Language family
- Northeast Caucasian Lezgic Archi
- Writing system
- Cyrillic script (developed in 2006 based on the Avar alphabet), Arabic script (19th century)
- Iso 639 3
- aqc
- Glottolog
- arch1244
- Elp
- Archi
via Wikipedia infobox
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 970
- Commons category
- Archi language
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Archi (/ɑːrˈtʃiː/ ar-CHEE) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Archis in the village of Archib, southern Dagestan, Russia, and the six surrounding smaller villages.
It is unusual for its many phonemes and for its contrast between several voiceless velar lateral fricatives, /𝼄, 𝼄ʷ, 𝼄ː, 𝼄ʷː/, tenuis and ejective velar lateral affricates, /k͡𝼄, k͡𝼄ʷ, k͡𝼄ʼ, k͡𝼄ʷʼ/, and a voiced velar lateral fricative, /ʟ̝/. It is an ergative–absolutive language with four noun classes and has a morphological system with irregularities on all levels. Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root.