Batsbi
Bats; Tsova-Tush; batsba motjiti; Bac; Tush; Batsaw; Batsi; ბაცბური ენა; წოვათუშური ენა; бацбийский язык; цова-тушинский; цоватский язык; бацбур мотlтl
Northeast Caucasian; Nakh
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Batsbi language wiki
Über die Thusch-Sprac
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"Different linguistic studies put the number of speakers at approximately 3,000, yet [Revaz Orbetishvili] estimates that active speakers may be as few as 800."
2015
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Georgia
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"For centuries, Batsbi served the community as a spoken language, while Georgian was used for writing and higher domains such as religion. The situation of stable bilingualism began to change with Georgian slowly replacing Batsbi as the spoken language. ... One of the factors is the high degree of intermarriages between Tsova Tush men and women from different villages, making Georgian a natural choice for a language of communication between family members."
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2010
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2005
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Zemo-Alvani, Akhmeta County, Georgia
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2009
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"Batsbi, an endangered language of the Nakh-Daghestanian family [...] is now spoken by perhaps only two or three hundred individuals."
2011
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Georgia
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Georgian; Russian
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"All Batsbi people speak Georgian, and many also speak Russian; none of these three languages is related to the others. For several generations Batsbi people have attended schools taught in Georgian."
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Number in 1953 given as over 3,000.
2006
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2500-3000
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1993
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Older speakers reported using Tsova-Tush in a more diverse set of domains than younger speakers. – Domains of use fell along a scale (see e.g., Blommaert 2007) where Tsova-Tush is used the least at translocal levels (doctor and work) and increasingly more often in more local levels. – Even in the most local levels, with spouse or parents, Tsova-Tush was either always or never used. – Reported use was greater with extended family than with children.
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- "Svan/Udi/Tsova-Tush" DoBES ProjectGippert, Jost, Wolfgang Schultze and Manana Tandashvili. 2006. ""Svan/Udi/Tsova-Tush" DoBES Project." Online: http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/svan.http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/svan
- The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire"The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook
- Perception of Exuberant Exponence in Batsbi: Fuctional or Incidental?Alice C. Harris and Arthur G. Samuel. 2011. "Perception of Exuberant Exponence in Batsbi: Fuctional or Incidental?" In Language, 87: 447-469. Linguistic Society of America. Online: http://muse.jhu.edu.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/journals/language/v087/87.3.harris.html.http://muse.jhu.edu.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/journals/language/v087/87.3.harris.html
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