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Agul language
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| Aghul агъул чӀал |
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| Spoken in: | Russia, also spoken in Azerbaijan | |
| Region: | Southern Dagestan | |
| Total speakers: | 17,373 (1989 Census) | |
| Language family: | Northeast Caucasian Lezgic Aghul |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | agx | |
| ISO 639-3: | agx | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Aghul, also called Agul, is a language spoken by the Aguls who live in southern Dagestan (a republic of Russia) and Azerbaijan.
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Aghul belongs to the Lezgic group of the Northeast Caucasian (Dagestan) language family.
In 1989, Aghul was spoken by 17,373 people in Russia, mainly in Southern Dagestan, as well as 32 people in Azerbaijan.
Aghul is not an official language, and Lezgian is used as the literary language.
There are ten languages in the Lezgian language family, namely: Aghul, Tabasaran, Rutul, Lezgian, Tsakhur, Budukh, Kryts, Khinalugh, Udi and Archi.
Independent and predicative adjectives take number marker and class marker; also case if used as nominal. As attribute they are invariable. Thus idžed "good", ergative, idžedi, etc. -n, -s; pl. idžedar; but Idže insandi hhuč qini "The good man killed the wolf" (subject in ergative).
| Singular | Plural | |
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| 1 | zun |
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