Bats, or Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, is the language of a the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part of the Nakh family of Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000 speakers in 1975.
There is only one dialect. It exists only as a spoken language, as the Bats people use Georgian as their written language. The language is not mutually intelligible with either Chechen or Ingush, the other two members of the Nakh family.
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The Red Book of Peoples of the Russian Empire: The Bats (http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/bats.shtml)
Ethnologue report on Bats (http://www.ethnologue.com/show-language.asp?code=BBL)
Languages of the World report (http://languageserver.uni_graz.at/ls/lang?id=3048)
Bats, or Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, is the language of a the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part of the Nakh family of Caucasianlanguages.
The language is not mutually intelligible with either Chechen or Ingush, the other two members of the Nakh family.
Bats belongs to the Nakh family of Caucasianlanguages.
Bats are usually grouped with the tree shrews (Scandentia), colugos (Dermoptera), and the primates in superorder Archonta because of the similarities between Megachiroptera and these mammals.
Bats often form nursery roosts, with many females giving birth in the same area, be it a cave, a tree hole, or a cavity in a building.
Chinese lore claims the bat is a symbol of longevity and happiness, and is similarly lucky in Poland and geographical Macedonia and among the Kwakiutl and Arabs.
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