Bezhta language

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/bezhta-language

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1. How big is Bezhta language?Southern mountainous regions of Dagestan, Russian Federation
2. What is the language family classification?Northeast Caucasian, Tsezic subgroup
3. What is the estimated speaker population?Approximately 6,200 individuals
4. How many people speak Bezhta?About 6,200 people speak Bezhta. They live mainly in the mountainous areas of Dagestan.
5. Where does Bezhta come from?Bezhta comes from the Tsezic branch of the Northeast Caucasian languages. It has been spoken in the Caucasus for many, many years.

Endonym: The name by which a group of people refer to themselves or their language.
Nakh-Dagestanian Languages: A major branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family, spoken in the Caucasus region.
Glottalic Egressive Airstream: A mechanism for producing speech sounds by expelling air from the glottis, creating ejective consonants.
Linguistic Vitality: The likelihood of a language continuing to be spoken by future generations.