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Lak language

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History
Phonology
Consonants Vowels
Grammar
Writing systems
References
External links

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Latin (formerly)
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The Lak language (лакку маз, lakːu maz) is a Northeast Caucasian language forming its own branch within this family. It is the language of the Lak people from the Russian autonomous republic of Dagestan, where it is one of six standardized languages. It is spoken by about 157,000 people.

History

In 1864 Russian ethnographer and linguist P. K. Uslar wrote: "Kazikumukh grammar or as I called it for short in the native language, the Lak grammar, Lakku maz, the Lak language, is ready".^[1]

In 1890 a textbook was published on Lak grammar compiled by P.K. Uslar named as The Lak Language. It stated under the title "Lak alphabet": "The proposed alphabet is written for people who name themselves collectively Lak, genitive Lakral. From among these people each one is named separately Lakkuchu 'Lakian man,' the woman — Lakkusharssa 'Lakian woman.' Their homeland they name Lakral kIanu — 'Lak place.'"^[1]

Lak has throughout the centuries adopted a number of loanwords from Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Russian.^[2] Ever since Dagestan was part of the USSR and later Russia, the largest portion of loanwords have come from Russian, especially political and technical vocabulary. There is a newspaper and broadcasting station in Lak language.^[3]

In accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Dagestan of 1994, Lak language was named as the state language along with Russian and some other major languages spoken in Dagestan (about 20 local languages are unwritten and have no official status). Lak language is used as a teaching tool in elementary school and taught as a subject in secondary schools, vocational schools and universities. There is a Lak newspaper, "Ilchi".

The standard Lak language is based on the dialect of the city of Kumukh. This city should not be confused with the Kumyk ethnic group, a Turkic people also present in the Caucasus. To sum up, the Lak language has the following dialects: Kumukh, Vitskhi, Arakul, Balkhar, Shadni, Shalib, Vikhli, Kuli, and Kaya.

Initially Lak language by lexicon was found to be close to Dargin language and the two were often combined in one Lak-Dargin subgroup of Dagestani languages. However, further research has led the scientists to conclude that this association was weak.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants^[4]^[5]
		Labial	Dental	Postalveolar		Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Pharyngeal	Glottal
		Labial	Dental	plain	lab.	Palatal	plain	lab.	plain	lab.	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Plosive	voiced	b	d	ɡ	gʷ	ʡ
	voiceless lenis	p	t	k	kʷ	q	qʷ	ʔ
	voiceless fortis	pː	tː	kː	kːʷ	qː	qːʷ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	kʼ	kʷʼ	qʼ	qʷʼ
Affricate	voiceless lenis	t͡s	t͡ʃ	t͡ʃʷ
	voiceless fortis	t͡sː	t͡ʃː	t͡ʃːʷ
	ejective	t͡sʼ	t͡ʃʼ	t͡ʃʷʼ
Fricative	voiceless lenis	s	ʃ	ʃʷ	x	xʷ	χ	χʷ	h
	voiceless fortis	sː	ʃː	ʃːʷ	xː	xːʷ	χː	χːʷ
	voiced	v ~ w ~ β	z	ʒ	ʒʷ	ʁ	ʁʷ
Trill		r	ʜ
Approximant		l	j

The consonants in orange are given by Schulze, but not by TITUS. The consonant /ʡ/ (grey) is given by TITUS, but not by Schulze.
The sound transcribed here as a glottal stop is named rather ambiguously a "glottalic laryngeal" by both sources.

Vowels

Five vowels are presented as [a, e, i, o, u].

Grammar

Lak is one of the few North East Caucasian languages with verbal agreement for person. It generally only distinguishes only between speech-act participants and non-speech-act participants. In other words, the first- and second-person agreement markers are the same.^[6]

Singular	Plural
1,2	-ra	-ru
3	-r / -ri / -∅

The free pronouns of Lak do distinguish first and second person.^[5]

Singular		Plural
Absolutive	Oblique
1	na	tːu-	žu(-)
2	ina	wi-	zu(-)

Writing systems

The Lak language was written using the Arabic script until 1928. Afterwards it was written with a Latin alphabet for ten years, and since 1938 it has been written in Cyrillic.

The Lak alphabet in Cyrillic initially included 48 letters and later 54 letters with double letters as "тт", "пп", "чч", "хьхь", etc.:

А а	Аь аь	Б б	В в	Г г	Гъ гъ	Гь гь	Д д
Е е	Ё ё	Ж ж	З з	И и	Й й	К к	Къ къ
Кь кь	КӀ кӏ	Л л	М м	Н н	О о	Оь оь	П п
Пп пп	ПӀ пӏ	Р р	С с	Т т	ТӀ тӏ	У у	Ф ф
Х х	Хъ хъ	Хь хь	ХӀ хӏ	Ц ц	ЦӀ цӏ	Ч ч	ЧӀ чӏ
Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

References

1. ^¹Услар П. К. Этнография Кавказа. Языкознание. 4. Лакский язык. Тифлис, 1890.
2. ^Словарь арабских и персидских лексических заимствований в лакском языке. Н. Б. Курбайтаева, И. И. Эфендиев. Махачкала, 2002.
3. ^Илчи – Lak newspaper {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818090711/http://ilchi.etnosmi.ru/ |date=2011-08-18 }}
4. ^Consonant Systems of the North-East Caucasian Languages on TITUS DIDACTICA
5. ^¹[https://web.archive.org/web/20090413144902/http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/lak.pdf The Lak Language – A quick reference, by Wolfgang Schulze (2007)]
6. ^Helmbrecht, J. (1996). "The Syntax of Personal Agreement in East Caucasian Languages". Sprachtypol. Univ. Frsch. (STUF) 49:127–48. Cited in Bhat, D.N.S. 2004. Pronouns. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 26.

External links

Lak Grammar by Wolfgang Schulze
Transliteration of Lak
Lak House – Lak culture and society site
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110719062742/http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ids/ids.pl?com=simple_browse&lg_id=56 Lak words]

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