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The future of the shahdagh languages.
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2009

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"Ethnic Budukh make up a majority in two clusters of villages: the mountain cluster of Buduq, Piru¨ stu¨ , and Qab Qazma in Quba district, and the plains cluster of Yergu¨c¸ and Suxtekele in Xacmaz district. They also live in a number of ethnically mixed plains villages in Quba and Xac¸maz districts. Other ethnicities represented in these mixed villages include Azerbaijani, Lezgi, and Kryz."

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"Ethnic Budukh make up a majority in two clusters of villages: the mountain cluster of Buduq, Piru¨ stu¨ , and Qab Qazma in Quba district, and the plains cluster of Yergu¨c¸ and Suxtekele in Xacmaz district. They also live in a number of ethnically mixed plains villages in Quba and Xac¸maz districts. Other ethnicities represented in these mixed villages include Azerbaijani, Lezgi, and Kryz."

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"While the current policy of the Azerbaijani Republic encourages the development of less-widely used languages, there has not been a sustained effort to develop an official alphabet, publish materials in the vernacular, or institute Budukh literacy classes."

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3,000

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Year of info

2010

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41.1207,48.3233

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Year of info

2007

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Budukh village

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Azerbaijani

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schools and wider communication

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1,000

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1,000

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Data comes from A. Kibrik (1990).

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2009

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Azerbaijan;

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200

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200

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"Today it [Budukh] is spoken as a first language by at most 200 speakers, all inhabitants of a single village of north-eastern Azerbaijan...it [Budukh] preserves typically Daghestanian, and most specifically Proto-Lezgic features."

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2010

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North-eastern Azerbaijan

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North-eastern Azerbaijan

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1,000

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1000

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1993

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Azerbaijani

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All except domestic

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2005

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41.1666666667,48.4166666667

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