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Name:
Lak
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Laki; Kazikumukhtsy
Spoken in:
Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey
Number of speakers:
157,000 in Russian Federation (2002 Census). Population total all countries: 164,420. Ethnic population: 118,000 in the Russian Federation
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
153373
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
119512
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
lbe
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Nakh-Daghestanian (North East Caucasian; Caucasian; North Caucasian (highly contested))
Parent Subgroup:
Lak-Dargwa (ldar)
Child Dialects:
Ashtikulin; Balxar-Calakan; Balkar-Tsalakan (lbe-ash)
Kumux; Kumkh (lbe-kum)
Vicxin; Vitskhin (lbe-vic)
Vixlin; Vikhlin (lbe-vix)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Lak
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