| Also Known As: Tabasaran,Ghumghum,Tabasarantsy,Tabassaran
Description:
Tabasaran (or Tabassaran) is a member of the Lezgic subfamily of the Northeast Caucasian languages. It is spoken in the southern parts of the Russian Caucasus republic of Dagestan. Tabasaran speakers, Tabasaran people, live in the basin of Upper Rubas-chai and Upper Chirakh-chai. There are two main dialects: North (Khanag) and South Tabasaran. It has a literary language based on the Southern dialect, one of six in the Dagestan Republic.
Tabassaran is an ergative language. The verb system is relatively simple; verbs agree with the noun in number, person and (in North Tabassaran) class. North Tabassaran has two noun classes, while Southern Tabassaran has none.
Tabasaran is written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
Note: The letters indicated in red are only encountered in loanwords from Russian.
Uwu aldakurawu "Уву алдакураву" — "You are falling."
Uzuz uwu kkunduzuz "Узуз уву ккундузуз" — "I love you."
Uwu fudžuwa? "Уву фужува?" — "Who are you?"
Fici wuna? "Фици вуна?" — "How are you?"
Zakur ɣürza "Закур гъюрза" — "I'll come tomorrow"
Grammar: Tabassaran is very probably an active language of Fluid-S type...... full article at Wikipedia |
