Udi language
| Udi | |
|---|---|
| Uti, Udin | |
| удин муз, udin muz, 𐕒𐕡𐔳𐔼𐕎 𐕌𐕒𐕡𐔵 | |
| Pronunciation | [udin muz] |
| Native to | Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia |
| Region | Azerbaijan (Qabala and Oguz), Russia (North Caucasus), Georgia (Kvareli), and Armenia (Tavush) |
| Ethnicity | Udi people |
Native speakers | 3,800 in Azerbaijan (2011) 1,860 in Russia (2020) 90 in Georgia (2015) |
Early form | |
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| Cyrillic, Latin, Caucasian Albanian | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | udi |
udi.html | |
| Glottolog | udii1243 |
| ELP | Udi |
Udi | |
Udi is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Udi (also called Uti or Udin) is a language spoken by the Udi people and a member of the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is believed an earlier form of it was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to current day Azerbaijan. The Old Udi language is also called the Caucasian Albanian language and possibly corresponds to the "Gargarian" language identified by medieval Armenian historians. Modern Udi is known simply as Udi.