Tindi language

Tindi
Идараб мицци Idarab mittsi
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)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tindi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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)

Kartvelian

Northeast

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

Tsezic	Bezhta Hinukh Hunzib Khwarshi Tsez

Dargin	Chirag Dargwa Itsari Kajtak Kubachi

Lezgic	Aghul Archi Budukh Kryts Lezgian Rutul Tabasaran Tsakhur Udi

Nakh	Bats Chechen Ingush

Other	Khinalug Lak

Northwest

Abazgi	Abaza Abkhaz

Circassian	Adyghe Kabardian

Altaic

Turkic	Azerbaijani Karachay-Balkar Kumyk Nogai Turkish Turkmen

Mongolic	Kalmyk

Indo-European

Iranian	Judeo-Tat Kurdish Ossetian Persian Talysh Tat Persian

Slavic	Russian Ukrainian

Hellenic	Greek Pontic Greek

Armenian	Armenian

Afroasiatic

Semitic	Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Bohtan Neo-Aramaic

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