Tsakhur
Tsaxur; Caxur; цахурский язык; Saxur dili; წახური ენა; цӀаӀхна миз; cʼäxna miz; Sakhur; Tsakhury; Tsakhar;
Northeast Caucasian; Daghestanian; Lezgic
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Azerbaijani, Russian
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2007
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Caucasia: northern Azerbaijan and southern Daghestan
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Spoken in sixteen villages in Zakatala (Zaqatala) and Kakh (Qax) counties in Azerbaijan as well as in thirteen villages in Rutul County in the Republic of Daghestan in the Russian Federation.
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Spoken in sixteen villages in Zakatala (Zaqatala) and Kakh (Qax) counties in Azerbaijan as well as in thirteen villages in Rutul County in the Republic of Daghestan in the Russian Federation.
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Azerbaijani, Russian
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In recent years Tsakhur has been studied as a subject in local schools.
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"The actual number of Tsakhurs is most likely higher, possibly as high as 50,000 (Ibragimov 1990)."
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"According to the 1989 Soviet census, there are 19,972 Tsakhur... In the 1989 Soviet census, 93% of Tsakhurs claimed to speak Tsakhur as their first language. A significant percentage, 6%, reported a language other than Russian or Tsakhur as their first language. We assume this is Azerbaijani."
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"There are over thirty Tsakhur villages (Schulze 1997) scattered from the Samur River valley in the Rutul district of Southern Dagestan in the north to the Azerbaijani districts of Zaqatala and Qax in the south. It has been claimed that close to two-thirds of the Tsakhur population lives in Azerbaijan. Schulze (1997) identifies nine villages in Azerbaijan where Tsakhurs constitute the majority of the population: Ağdam-Kalyal, Suvaqil, Karkay, Kalalu, Sabunçi, Alaskar, Mamrux, Gezbarax, and Mişleş. All of these are in the district of Zaqatala. Significant numbers of Tsakhur are said to live in an additional sixteen ethnically mixed communities."
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"There are over thirty Tsakhur villages (Schulze 1997) scattered from the Samur River valley in the Rutul district of Southern Dagestan in the north to the Azerbaijani districts of Zaqatala and Qax in the south. It has been claimed that close to two-thirds of the Tsakhur population lives in Azerbaijan. Schulze (1997) identifies nine villages in Azerbaijan where Tsakhurs constitute the majority of the population: Ağdam-Kalyal, Suvaqil, Karkay, Kalalu, Sabunçi, Alaskar, Mamrux, Gezbarax, and Mişleş. All of these are in the district of Zaqatala. Significant numbers of Tsakhur are said to live in an additional sixteen ethnically mixed communities."
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"In Qum, Azerbaijani is the main language in all domains, while the use of Tsakhur is limited. If Tsakhur is used at all, it is minimally used in the home. Some individuals also use it on the street... Recently both Tsakhur radio programs and newspapers have appeared in the areas where Tsakhurs live in Azerbaijan as well as in Dagestan."
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13,000 in Azerbaijan (1989 census). Ethnic population: 13,318 in Azerbaijan (1989 census). 9,770 in Russian Federation (2002 census)
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Azerbaijan; Uzbekistan; Russia;
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Northwest Azerbaijan. Russia: Southern Dagestan.
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Northwest Azerbaijan. Russia: Southern Dagestan.
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In 1989, 95.2% of the ethnic population of 19,972 were considered to be native speakers, which is approximately 19,010.
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The Tsakhurs inhabit the mountains of the upper reaches of the River Samur in Dagestan.
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The Tsakhurs inhabit the mountains of the upper reaches of the River Samur in Dagestan.
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Russian
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Daghestan; northern Azerbaijan
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- Where coordination meets subordination: Converb Constructions in TsakhurKonstantin I. Kazenin and Yakov G. Testelets. 2004. "Where Coordination Meets Subordination: Converb Constructions in Tsakhur." In Coordinating Conjunctions, edited by Martin Haspelmath. 227-240. John Benjamins B.V.. Online: http://books.google.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/books?hl=en&lr=&id=FxkobNpxQhwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA227&dq=tsakhur&ots=vivXtWENRp&sig=SYvSuUNicKhJQnZ8aqashrVhZHM#v=onepage&q=tsakhur&f=false.http://books.google.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/books?hl=en&lr=&id=FxkobNpxQhwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA227&dq=tsakhur&ots=vivXtWENRp&sig=SYvSuUNicKhJQnZ8aqashrVhZHM#v=onepage&q=tsakhur&f=false
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