Chamaline language in the Andean unwritten languages system

UDC 811.351`27
DOI 10.20339/PhS.5-26.015

Alieva Zainab Magomedovna,

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Leading Researcher
G. Tsadasa Institute of Language, Literature and Art of

the Dagestan Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences; North Caucasus Institute (branch) All-Russian State University of Justice (Makhachkala, Russia)

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8234-5202

e-mail: alieva_zm@mail.ru

It is an indisputable scientific fact that multilingualism is a historically established objective reality of Dagestan, and the languages of 18 indigenous peoples of Dagestan (mainly Ando-Caesian (Andian, Archin, Akhvakh, Bagvalinsky, Bezhtinsky, Botlikhsky, Ginukhsky, Godoberinsky, Gunzibsky, Karatinsky, Tindinsky, Khvarshinsky, Caesian and Chamalin) and Lezginsky (Kryzsky, The Budukhsky, Udinsky and Khinalugsky groups have still preserved the traditional communal way of life and continue to remain unwritten. In these languages, which are only active at the everyday level, there are no written monuments, no printed word, no literary traditions, and no system of schooling in the native language. It is important to note that unwritten languages, which do not have written monuments, are losing their history and culture, and this trend may lead to significant changes in the cultural landscape of Dagestan. This article provides a brief overview of the study of unwritten languages.

Keywords: Chamalin language, unwritten languages, language extinction, and the fixation of ‘disappearing’ vocabulary

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