avTechnical information about ISO 639 language code av
The table below provides technical details for the Avaric language, designated by the av code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Avaric Native Авар мацӀ |
| Family | Northeast Caucasian |
| Scripts | |
| 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 | |
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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.
Speakers
950K
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Avaric speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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