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Lak (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.

Lak
лакку маз (lakːu maz)
Native toNorth Caucasus
RegionSouthern Dagestan
EthnicityLaks
Native speakers
152,050 (2010 census)[1]
Language family
Writing system
Cyrillic (Lak alphabet)
Latin (formerly)
Official status
Official language in
 Russia
Language codes
ISO 639-3lbe
Glottologlakk1252
  Lak
Lak is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

History


Cover page of the textbook on Lak grammar named Лакскiй языкъ or The Lak language compiled by P. K. Uslar in 1890
Cover page of the textbook on Lak grammar named "Лакскiй языкъ" or The Lak language compiled by P. K. Uslar in 1890
Лакская азбука or The Lak alphabet. Many called the language Bak Tak from Peter Uslar's Lak Grammar.
"Лакская азбука" or The Lak alphabet. Many called the language "Bak Tak" from Peter Uslar's Lak Grammar.
Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles in Lak, 2019
Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles in Lak, 2019

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".[2]

In 1890, P. K. Uslar compiled a textbook on Lak grammar titled 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'."[2]

Lak has throughout the centuries adopted a number of loanwords from Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Russian.[3] Ever since Dagestan was part of the Soviet Union 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.[4]

In accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Dagestan of 1994, Lak 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 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. Lak has the following dialects: Kumukh, Vitskhi, Arakul, Balkhar, Shadni, Shalib, Vikhli, Kuli, and Kaya.

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


Phonology



Consonants


Consonants[5][6]
Labial Dental Postalveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal
plain lab. plain lab. plain lab.
Nasal mn
Plosive voiced bd ɡɡʷ ʡ
voiceless lenis pt k q ʔ
voiceless fortis kːʷ qːʷ
ejective kʷʼ qʷʼ
Affricate voiceless lenis t͡s t͡ʃt͡ʃʷ
voiceless fortis t͡sː t͡ʃːt͡ʃːʷ
ejective t͡sʼ t͡ʃʼt͡ʃʷʼ
Fricative voiceless lenis s ʃʃʷ x χχʷ h
voiceless fortis ʃːʃːʷ xːʷ χːχːʷ
voiced v ~
w ~ β
z ʒʒʷ ʁʁʷ
Trill r ʜ
Approximant l j

Vowels


Five vowels are presented as /a, e, i, o, u/. Three vowels /i, a, u/ are also pharyngealized as /iˤ, aˤ, uˤ/, and also have fronted allophones of [e, æ, œ].[7]


Grammar


Lak is one of the few North East Caucasian languages with verbal agreement for person. It generally only distinguishes between speech-act participants and non-speech-act participants. In other words, the first- and second-person agreement markers are the same.[8]

SingularPlural
1,2-ra-ru
3-r / -ri / -∅

The free pronouns of Lak do distinguish first and second person.[6]

SingularPlural
AbsolutiveOblique
1natːu-žu(-)
2inawi-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
Obsolete Lak alphabets in Latin script
Obsolete Lak alphabets in Latin script

References


  1. Lak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. P. K. Uslar. Этнография Кавказа [Ethnography of the Caucasus]. Языкознание [Linguistics]. 4. Лакский язык [The Lak language]. Tbilisi, 1890.
  3. Словарь арабских и персидских лексических заимствований в лакском языке [Dictionary of Arabic and Persian lexical borrowings in Lak language]. N. B. Kurbaytayeva, I. I. Efyendiyev. Makhachkala, 2002.
  4. Илчи – Lak newspaper Archived 2011-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Consonant Systems of the North-East Caucasian Languages on TITUS DIDACTICA
  6. The Lak Language – A quick reference, by Wolfgang Schulze (2007)
  7. Anderson, Gregory D. S. (1997). Lak phonology. Kaye A (ed.), Phonologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus): University of Chicago.
  8. 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.



На других языках


[de] Lakische Sprache

Lakisch (auch Lakkisch; Eigenbezeichnung лакку маз lakku maz) ist eine Sprache, die von ca. 120.000 Menschen gesprochen wird.
- [en] Lak language

[fr] Lak

Le lak (лакку маз, lakku maz ; en russe лакский язык) est la langue du peuple lak installé dans le sud de la république autonome du Daghestan, qui appartient à la Fédération de Russie. Il y constitue l'une des six langues littéraires recensées. Le lak, parlé par environ 150 000 personnes, appartient au groupe des langues nakho-daghestaniennes des langues du Nord-Caucase, et est proche du darguine. Il était autrefois également appelé Гьази-Кьумукь (Ghazi-Qumuq), Кази-Кумук (Kazi-Koumouk) ou Каси-Кумук (Kassi-Koumouk).

[it] Lingua lak

La lingua lak è una lingua caucasica nordorientale parlata in Russia, nella repubblica autonoma del Daghestan.

[ru] Лакский язык

Ла́кский язык (самоназвание: лакку маз) — язык лакцев, входящий в нахско-дагестанскую семью. Один из 14 официальных языков Дагестана, на нём говорит около 146 тысяч человек.



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