Tukita dialect

The Tukita dialect is a dialect of the Karata language, common in the villages of Tukita in the Akhvakhsky District and Tukita in the Khasavyurtovsky District of the Republic of Dagestan.^[4] It has significant differences in phonetics, morphology and vocabulary with the proper Karata dialect.

Tukita
Tokita[1], Tokitin[2]
Тукитинский диалект
Native to	North Caucasus
Region	Southern Dagestan
Ethnicity	Karata
Native speakers	1,500[3]
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Avar–Andic Andic Akhvakh–Tindi Karata–Tindi Karata Tukita
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	kpt-tok
Glottolog	toki1238

Linguistic characteristics

There are noticeable differences in the vocabulary (For example, Tukita "гьерса", Karata "лълъерсса", Russian "река", English "river", as well as Tukita "гьангъу", Karata "гьанда", Russian "холм, курган", English "hill, mound").^[5]

In the Tuktitan dialect, the formation of numerals is vegisimal (two-decimal), in contrast to decimal (ten-decimal) in Karatin proper. In cardinal numerals, the particle "-да" is absent (Tukita "кlекlи", Karata "кlеда", Russian "два", English "two"). The formation of the names of tens is also different.^[6]

There are differences in pronominal adverbs (Tukita "гьуди", Karata "вудугу", Russian "там (вдали, по горизонтали)", English "there (far away, horizontally)").^[7]

The formant of the dative case in the Tukita dialect is "отцу", which coincides with the Akhvakh language ("иму лъа" — "отцу" - "to the father").^[8]

The weak ejective lateral afrikata [кьl] is absent. Tukita has a dorsal spirant [г], which is a variant of Karatin [хь]. The spirant [хь] itself is significantly palatalized. The palatalized consonants [г], [к], [кь] are represented.^[9]

In the dialect, the affixes of personal pronouns and the vowel of the stem change ("мен" - "ты" - you, "мини" - "тебя" - "you").^[7]

The dialect is influenced by the Avar language.^[7]