Udi language

For other uses, see Udi or UDI.

Udi
Spoken in:	Azerbaijan, Georgia
Region:	Azerbaijan (Qabala and Oguz), Russia (North Caucasus), Georgia (Kvareli), and Armenia (Tavush)
Total speakers:	8,000 (est.)[1]
Language family:	Northeast Caucasian  Lezgic   Udi
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	cau
ISO 639-3:	udi

The Udi language, spoken by the Udi people, is a member of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is believed this was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to current day Azerbaijan. The language is spoken by about 5,000 people in the Azerbaijani village of Nij in the Qabala rayon, the Oguz rayon, as well as parts of the North Caucasus in Russia. It is also spoken by ethnic Udis living in the villages of Debedavan, Bagratashen, Ptghavan, and Haghtanak in the Tavush province of Armenia and in the village of Octomberi in the Kvareli district of the Kakheti province in Georgia. Udi is related to Lezgian and Tabasaran. Together with Lak, Dargin and others, they form the group of Lezgic languages.

Contents 1 Sounds 1.1 Consonants 1.2 Vowels 2 See also 3 References 3.1 Footnotes 4 External links

Sounds

Consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	p b pʼ	t d tʼ		k g kʼ	q qʼ
Affricate		ʦ ʣ ʦ'	ʧ ʤ ʧ'
Fricative	f v	s z	ʃ ʒ	x ɣ		h
Nasal	m	n
Trill		r
Lateral Approximant		l
Approximant	w		j

Vowels

Front	Central	Back
i iˤ i		u uˤ
e eˤ ø	ə	o oˤ
æ		ɑ ɑˤ

See also

• Languages of the Caucasus

References

Harris, Alice C. (2002). Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-924633-5. 

Footnotes

External links

• Udi at Ethnologue
• The Udi Language: a grammatical description with sample text — Wolfgang Schulze 2001/2 (University of Munich)
• The Udis
• Historical map