Jek language

Jek
Cekcə məz
цIека meз c’eka mez
Native to Azerbaijan
Region Quba
Native speakers
 1,500+
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog dzhe1238[1]

Cek,[2] also known as Jek or Dzhek, is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 1,500 to 11,000 Jek people in the village of Jek in the mountains of northern Azerbaijan.[3] It belongs to the Samurian division of the northwest branch of the Caucasic language family[4]

The Jek language is not a written language and Azeri serves as the literary language of the Jek, as well as all Shahdagh peoples.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dzhek". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Н. МАРР : "Яфетические языки", Большая сов. энциклопедия, 1-е изд., т. 65, Москва : Сов. Энц., 1931, стр. 841.
  3. ↑ Tərxan Paşazadə, "Dünyanın nadir etnik qrupu – Azərbaycan cekliləri", Azərbaycan qəzeti
  4. 1 2 Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. New York: M.E. Sharpe and London, Macmillan. 1984.
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