Jek language
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Jek | |
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Cekcə məz цIека meз c’eka mez |
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Native to | Azerbaijan |
Region | Quba |
Native speakers
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1,500+ (date missing)[citation needed] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | dzhe1238 [1] |
Cek,[2] also known as Jek, Dzhek, is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 1,500 to 11,000 people in the villages of Jek in the mountains of northern Azerbaijan.[3] Belongs to the Samurian division of the northwest branch of the Caucasic language family[4]
Jek language is not a written language and Azeri serves as the literary language of the Jek, as well as all Shahdagh peoples.[4]
Official claims
It is often classified as a dialect of Kryts, even though Jek is different enough from Kryts that it could be considered a separate language.[5]
References
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- ↑ Н. МАРР : "Яфетические языки", Большая сов. энциклопедия, 1-е изд., т. 65, Москва : Сов. Энц., 1931, стр. 841.
- ↑ Tərxan Paşazadə, "Dünyanın nadir etnik qrupu – Azərbaycan cekliləri", Azərbaycan qəzeti
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. New York: M.E. Sharpe and London, Macmillan. 1984.
- ↑ Ethnologue entry for Kryts