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The Bezhta language (also known as Kapucha) belongs to the Tsezic group of the North Caucasian language family. It is a language spoken by about 3000 people in southern Dagestan, Russia. North Caucasian languages is a blanket term for two distinct, but possibly related, phyla of languages spoken in the north Caucasus and in Turkey. ...
The Republic of Dagestan (Russian: ), older spelling Daghestan, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ...
Bezhta can be further divided into three dialects — Bezhta, Tljadali and Hochar-Hota — which are spoken in various villages in the region. Its closest linguistic relatives are Hunzib, Tsez, Khvarshi and Hinukh. It is also related to the Avar language, but the two are not mutually intelligible. Bezhta is an unwritten language, but various attempts have been made to develop an official orthography for the language. The Bezhta people use Avar as literary language. The first book ever printed in Bezhta was the Gospel of Luke. This article is about the Avar Language, for information on the Avar people please see Caucasian Avars. ...
Phonology
Bezhta has a rich consonantal and — unlike its relatives Tsez and Avar — a relatively big vowel inventory (18 distinct vowel phonemes), compared to other languages of the same family.
Morphology The Bezhta language is a mostly agglutinative one and the vast amount of locative cases makes its case system particularly rich. The verb morphology is relatively simple, though. It is an ergative language. Locative is a case which indicates a location. ...
An ergative-absolutive language (or just ergative language) is one that marks the subject of transitive verbs distinctly from the subject of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs. ...
Numerals Just like Tsez, Bezhta has a decimal system below twenty and a vigesimal (base-20) system from 20 onwards. | | Latin | Cyrillic | | 1 | hõs | гьонс | | 2 | qʼona | къона | | 3 | łana | лъана | | 4 | õqʼona | онкъона | | 5 | łina | лъина | | 6 | iłna | илъна | | 7 | aƛna | алӀна | | 8 | beƛna | белӀна | | 9 | ačʼena | ачӀена | | 10 | acʼona | ацӀона | | 20 | qona | хъона | - Compound numbers are formed by juxtaposition, the smaller numbers following the greater ones.
Sample of the Bezhta language This is a passage taken from the Gospel of Luke written in a Cyrillic orthography based on Avar and Chechen, a latinized transcription and one in IPA. The Gospel of Luke is the third of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus life, death, and resurrection. ...
The Chechen language has about 1,200,000 speakers, most of whom live in Russia. ...
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ...
| CYRILLIC | LATIN TRANSCRIPTION | IPA TRANSCRIPTION | | Гьогцо гьоллохъа нисос: | Hogco golloqa nisos: | [hogʦo golːoqɑ nisos | | Доьъа богьцалаъ вагьдā ниса: | Dö'a bohcala' wahdā nisa: | dɜʔɑ bohʦɑlɑʔ vɑhdɑː nisɑ | | «Йā Або, Дибо цāн аьдамлā илагьияб бикӀзи йовала, | «Yā Abo, Dibo cā̃ ädamlā ilahiyab bikʼzi yowala, | jɑː ʔɑbo, dibo ʦɑ̃ː ʔadɑmlɑː ʔilɑhijɑb bikʼzi jovɑlɑ, | | Дибо Парчагьлъи йонкъала; | Dibo Parčahłi yõqʼala; | dibo pɑrʧɑhɬi jõqʼɑlɑ; | | Шибаб водиъ баццас баьба илол нилӀа; | Šibab wodi' baccas bäba ilol niƛa; | ʃibɑb vodiʔ bɑʦːɑs babɑ ʔilol nitɬɑ; | | Илла мунагьлāкьас кьодос тилӀки, судлӀо нисода илена | Illa munahlāƛʼas ƛʼodos tiƛki, sudƛo nisoda ilena | ʔilːɑ munɑhlɑːtɬʼɑs tɬʼodos titɬki, sudtɬo nisɔdɑ ʔilenɑ | | къацӀцӀола илол кешлъи йōвакьас кьодос тилӀбакца. | qʼacʼcʼola ilol kešłi yōwaƛʼas ƛʼodos tiƛbakca. | qʼɑʦʼːolɑ ʔilol keʃɬi joːvɑtɬʼɑs tɬʼodos titɬbɑkʦɑ. | | Ми илос гьаьл бикъелална уьнхолъāкъа.» | Mi ilos häl biqʼelalna ü̃xołāqʼa.» | mi ʔilos hal biqʼelɑlnɑ ʔɨ̃χoɬɑːqʼɑ.] |
External links: - Ethnologue report for Bezhta
- The Peoples of the Red Book: THE BEZHTAS
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