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Avar

Also known as Avar language, Avaric, Avaric language, Caucasian Avar, Caucasian Avar language

language belonging to the Avar–Andic group of the Northeast Caucasian language family

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Avar is a language spoken primarily in the Caucasus region that belongs to a specific branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It matters because it represents an important part of the linguistic diversity of the Caucasus, a region known for having one of the world's most complex concentrations of different languages.

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Wikimedia language code: av
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 715000
native label: магIарул мацI
Commons category: Avar language
short name: солиаг
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AVA
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Avar (авар мацӏ, avar maⱬ [ʔaˈwar mat͡sʼː] or магӏарул мацӏ, maⱨarul maⱬ [maʕarul mat͡sʼː], 'language of the mountains'), also known as Avaric, is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Avar–Andic subgroup that is spoken by Avars, primarily in Dagestan. In 2010, there were approximately one million speakers in Dagestan and elsewhere in Russia.

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