Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Lezgian (lez) Alternative Names  Lezgi, Lezghi, Lezgin, Kiurinsty Family/Group  Nakh-Daghestanian, Lezgic Area  Eurasia General Data  • about 450.000 speakers; 250.000 in Russia (Dagestan Republic), 170.000 in Azerbaijan; also spoken in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan • main dialects: Kiuri, Akhty, Kuba, Gjunej, Garkin, Anyx, Stal Typological Information  6 phonemic vowels; 54 phonemic consonants labial vowel harmony agglutinative and suffixing ergativity predominantly SOV Reduplication Form-Function  verb: ~Ci verb: ~C2 full: distributive numeral echo word noun~noun make 'mirror reduplication' ideophones Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Forms  Select Valueσ C echo stem VC   Functions  Select Valuelexical enrichment other pluralization Patterns  Select Valuefull partial echo word formation full with affixation Semantics  Select Valueother plurality   Word Classes  Select Value0 — noun 0 — other adjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — noun noun — verb verb — verb   All Examples  ⊟ References Haspelmath, Martin 1993. A Grammar of Lezgian. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter; (relevant pages: 109, 128f, 181, 235)     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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