Kryts language

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
кърыцIаь мез ġrəċä mez
цIека meз ċeka mez
Native toAzerbaijan
RegionQuba Rayon
EthnicityKryts
Native speakers
5,000 (2007)[1]
Northeast Caucasian
  • Lezgic
    • Samur
      • Southern Samur
        • Kryts
Language codes
ISO 639-3kry
Glottologkryt1240[2]

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

References
  • Authier, Gilles. 2009. Grammaire kryz. Paris: Peeters.
  1. Kryts at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kryz". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Ethnologue entry for Kryts
  4. "Kryts". The Endangered Languages Project.
  5. "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". UNESCO.
  6. UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger Archived February 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine


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