Kryts language

Kryts
кърыцIаь мез ġrəċä mez
цIека meз ċeka mez
Native to Azerbaijan
Region Quba Rayon
Ethnicity Kryts
Native speakers
 5,000 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kry
Glottolog kryt1240[2]

Kryts (Kryc) is a Samur language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken in parts of the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan by 6,000 people in 1975.[3] Its dialects are Kryts, Jek, Khaput, Yergyudzh, and Alyk, which are all quite distinct and could be considered separate languages.[3]

Kryts is endangered[4][5], classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Kryts at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kryts". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Ethnologue entry for Kryts
  4. ↑ Published in: Encyclopedia of the world’s endangered languages. Edited by Christopher Moseley. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. 211–280.
  5. ↑ The sociolinguistic situation of the Kryz in Azerbaijan
  6. ↑ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger Archived February 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.


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