Lak

Also known as Lak language, Lakk

Northeast Caucasian language

AI overview

Lak is a language spoken primarily in the Caucasus region of Russia, belonging to the Northeast Caucasian language family. It matters as part of the linguistic diversity of the Caucasus, a region known for its many distinct languages and cultures.

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Vinony's link graph records 397 inbound references to Lak, and connects out to Abaza, Persian alphabet and labialization.

It sits within the topics Dagestan, Indigenous languages of European Russia and Lak language.

Vinony links it to 70 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: natural language
Subclass of: Dagestanian
Country: Russia
Image: Lak latin alphabet text.JPG

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topic's main category: Category:Lak language
Wikimedia language code: lbe
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 154820
short name: лакаг
native label: лакку маз‎
indigenous to: Dagestan
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LBE

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Encyclopedic overview

Lak (лакку маз, [lakːu maz]) is a Northeast Caucasian language forming its own branch within the family. It is the language of the Lak people from the Russian autonomous republic of Dagestan, where it is one of six official languages. It is spoken by about 157,000 people.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.