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Avar
Also known as Avar language, Avaric, Avaric language, Caucasian Avar, Caucasian Avar language
language belonging to the Avar–Andic group of the Northeast Caucasian language family
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Avar is a language spoken primarily in the Caucasus region that belongs to a specific branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It matters because it represents an important part of the linguistic diversity of the Caucasus, a region known for having one of the world's most complex concentrations of different languages.
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Wikidata facts
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- Wikimedia language code
- av
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 715000
- native label
- магIарул мацI
- Commons category
- Avar language
- short name
- солиаг
- P10369
- Courrendlin
- P11012
- Wangan Midnight
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Avar (авар мацӏ, avar maⱬ [ʔaˈwar mat͡sʼː] or магӏарул мацӏ, maⱨarul maⱬ [maʕarul mat͡sʼː], 'language of the mountains'), also known as Avaric, is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Avar–Andic subgroup that is spoken by Avars, primarily in Dagestan. In 2010, there were approximately one million speakers in Dagestan and elsewhere in Russia.
Geographic distribution