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Language code: av

Technical information about ISO 639 language code av

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The table below provides technical details for the Avaric language, designated by the av code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

av

Name

Official

Avaric

Native

Авар мацӀ

Family
Northeast Caucasian
Scripts
Cyrillic
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
KhunzakhGunibGidatlAntsokhZakatal
Related languages
AndiTsezLakLezgianDargwa
Key facts
Member of the Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Dagestanian) family, in the Avar-Andic branchStandard Avar is based on the Khunzakh dialect and has used a Cyrillic alphabet since 1938The language marks up to thirty grammatical cases and shows ergative–absolutive alignmentIt distinguishes two noun classes in the singular but loses gender distinctions in the pluralRich oral epic tradition includes the heroic song cycle of ‘Illi’.
Sample phrase

Салам, кӏайидав гъебул?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Avaric (Avar) belongs to the Northeast Caucasian family of languages. It is one of the official languages of Dagestan in Russia and is written in the Cyrillic script. It is estimated that there are more than 1 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Russia

950K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Avaric speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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