Hinuq language
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The Hinuq language (autonym: гьинузас мец hinuzas mec, also known as Hinukh, Hinux, Ginukh, or Ginux) is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Tsezic subgroup. It is spoken by about 200 to 500 people, the Hinukhs, in the Tsuntinsky District of southwestern Dagestan, mainly in the village of Genukh (Hinukh: Hino). Hinukh is very closely related to Tsez, but they are not entirely mutually intelligible.
Hinuq | |
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гьинузас мец / hinuzas mec | |
Pronunciation | [hiˈnuzas mɛt͡s] |
Native to | North Caucasus |
Region | Southern Dagestan |
Ethnicity | Hinukh people |
Native speakers | 350 (2010 census)[1] |
Northeast Caucasian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gin |
Glottolog | hinu1240 |
ELP | Hinukh |
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Only half of the children of the village speak the Hinukh language. As Hinukh is unwritten, Avar and Russian are used as literary languages. Hinukh is not considered to have dialects, but due to its linguistic proximity to Tsez, it was once considered a Tsez dialect.
The Hinukh people were already mentioned in the Georgian chronicles of the Early Middle Ages. The language itself was first described in 1916 by Russian ethnographer A. Serzhputovsky.