Andic languages

Andic
Geographic distribution:	Dagestan
Linguistic classification:	Northeast Caucasian Avar–Andic Andic
Glottolog:	andi1254[1]

The Andic languages are a branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. They are often grouped together with the Avar language and (formerly) with the Tsezic (Didoic) languages to form an Avar–Andic (or Avar–Andic–Didoic) branch of that family.

Internal branching

Schulze (2009)^[2] gives the following family tree for the Andic languages:

• Andi (Qwannab)
• Akhvakh–Tindi
  • Akhvakh
  • Karata–Tindi
    • Karata (Kirdi)
    • Botlikh–Tindi
      • Botlikh
      • Godoberi
      • Chamalal
      • Bagvalal–Tindi
        • Bagvalal
        • Tindi

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Andic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. The Languages of the Caucasus, by Wolfgang Schulze (2009)