Tindi language

Tindi
Идараб мицци Idarab mittsi
Native to	Russia
Region	Southern Dagestan
Native speakers	2,200 (2010 census)^[1]
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Avar–Andic Andic Akhvakh–Tindi Karata–Tindi Botlikh–Tindi Bagvalal–Tindi Tindi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tin`
Glottolog	`tind1238`^[2]

Tindi is an Northeast Caucasian language spoken in the Russian republic of Dagestan. Tindis call their language Idarab mitstsi meaning 'the language of the Idar village'. It is only an oral language; Avar or Russian are used in written communication instead. It has approximately 2,150 speakers.^[1]

References

1 2 Tindi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tindi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Tindi language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

The peoples of the Red Book: Tindis

Northeast Caucasian languages

Avar–Andic languages	Akhvakh Andi Avar Bagvalal Botlikh Chamalal Godoberi Karata Tindi

Tsezic languages	Bezhta Hinukh Hunzib Khwarshi Tsez

Dargin languages	Chirag Dargwa Itsari Kajtak Kubachi

Lezgic languages	Aghul Archi Budukh Kryts Lezgian Rutul Tabasaran Tsakhur Udi

Nakh languages	Bats Chechen Ingush

Other languages	Khinalug Lak

Languages of the Caucasus

Caucasian
(areal)

Caspian

Avar–Andic	Andic Akhvakh Bagvalal–Tindi Botlix–Godoberi Chamalal Karata Literary Andi Avar

Dargic	Literary Dargwa and dialects Chirag Itsari Kajtak Kubachi

Didoic	Bezhta–Hunzib–Khwarshi Hinukh–Literary Tsez

Lezgic	Aghul Archi Budukh Kryts Lezgian Rutul Tabasaran Tsakhur Udi

Nakh	Bats Chechen–Ingush

Other	Khinalug Lak

Kartvelian

Karto-Zan–Svan	Georgian Svan Zan Laz Mingrelian

Pontic

Abazgi–Adyghe	Abkhaz–Abaza Circassian

Indo-European

Armenian

Armenian

Germanic

German

Hellenic

Pontic Greek

Iranic

Northern	Ossetian

Western	Judæo-Tat Talysh Tat Persian

Slavic

Mongolic

Kalmyk

Turkic

Kipchak–Cuman	Karachay–Balkar Kumyk

Kipchak–Nogai	Nogai

Oghuz	Azerbaijani Turkmen

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