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Language code: lez

Technical information about ISO 639 language code lez

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The table below provides technical details for the Lezghian language, designated by the lez code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

lez

Name

Lezghian

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Kurin (Kyurinsky)QubaQusar–UrvaAkhtyZakatala
Related languages
TabasaranAghulRutulTsakhurKrytsBudukh
Key facts
Shows ergative–absolutive case alignmentpossesses a three-way consonant contrast of voiced, voiceless and ejective stopshas around 50 consonant phonemes but only five vowel qualitiesrelies mainly on postpositions and agglutinative suffixes to mark grammatical relationsvocabulary contains many Persian, Arabic and Turkic loanwords due to centuries of contact.
Sample phrase

Салам, къайда хъу?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Lezghian language, identified by the code lez, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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