Bats
Sign in to saveAlso known as Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, Tsova-Tush, Bats language
language of the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part of the Nakh family of Caucasian languages
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [batsʰba motʼː] , [batsbur mɔt'ː]
- Native to
- North Caucasus
- Region
- Zemo-Alvani in Kakheti
- Ethnicity
- Bats people
- Native speakers
- (500 cited 1997) , Far fewer than 3,000 active (2007)
- Language family
- Northeast Caucasian Nakh Bats
- Writing system
- Georgian script
- Iso 639 3
- bbl
- Glottolog
- bats1242
- Elp
- Batsbi
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bats (Batsbur Mott, or Batsba Moṭṭ, ბაცბა მოტტ, [batsʰba motʼː]), also known as Batsbi, Batsi, Batsb, Batsaw, or Tsova-Tush) is the endangered language of the Bats people, a North Caucasian minority group living in Georgia. Batsbi is part of the Nakh branch of Northeast Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000 speakers in 1975, with only one dialect. Batsbi is only used for spoken communication, as Bats people tend to use Georgian when writing.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bats” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.