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Also known as Udi language, udin muz
Northeast Caucasian language
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ udin muz ]
- Native to
- Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia
- Region
- Azerbaijan ( Qabala and Oguz ), Russia ( North Caucasus ), Georgia ( Kvareli ), and Armenia ( Tavush )
- Ethnicity
- Udi people
- Native speakers
- 3,800 in Azerbaijan (2011) , 1,860 in Russia (2020) , 90 in Georgia (2015)
- Language family
- Northeast Caucasian Lezgic Samur Udi
- Early form
- Caucasian Albanian
- Dialects
- Nidzh Oktomberi Vartashen
- Writing system
- Cyrillic , Latin , Caucasian Albanian
- Iso 639 3
- udi
- Linguist list
- udi.html
- Glottolog
- udii1243
- Elp
- Udi
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Udi (also called Uti or Udin) is a language spoken by the Udi people and a member of the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is believed an earlier form of it was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to current day Azerbaijan. The Old Udi language is also called the Caucasian Albanian language and possibly corresponds to the "Gargarian" language identified by medieval Armenian historians. Modern Udi is known simply as Udi.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Udi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.