Kaitag (Хайдаҡьла ғай)

Kaitag is a member of the Dargin branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. It is spoken by about 21,000 people in the Kaytagsky District (Кайтагский район) of Dagestan Autonomous Republic in the southwest of the Russian Federation. It is classified as a dialect of Dargwa from 1938, and as a separate langauge before then and more recently.

Kaitag is also known as Kaitag, Kaitak, Kajtak, Kaytak, Xajdak, Sanchi or Sanzhi. Dialects include Upper Kaitag, Lower Kaitag and Shari.

Kaitag was written with the Arabic script from the end of the 15th century. In the 20th century the Cyrillic alphabet was adopted for Kaitag, although it was rarely used, and Kaitag speakers generally wrote in Dargwa. A new spelling system using the Cyrillic alphabet emerged in 2020, and was revised in 2024. There is also an unofficial way to write the language with the Latin alphabet.

Cyrillic alphabet for Kaitag (2024 version)

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Sample text

Ьар мейдам азатдеҳ челле чиьачьурил це: цада йярдицци, цада ихтийарцци. Ьелттай яҡьлу ра йяь ра деччил дилле, цалццил ца уццбе гон бугара биккан це.

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Links

Information about Kaitag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaitag_language
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кайтагский_язык
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/xdq/
https://paratype.github.io/cyrillic-languages/

Northeast Caucasian languages

Aghul,Akhvakh,Andi,Archi,Avar,Bagvalal,Batsbi,Bezhta,Botlikh,Budukh,Caucasian Albanian,Chamalal,Chechen,Dargwa,Godoberi,Hinukh,Hunzib,Ingush,Kaitag,Karata,Khinalug,Khwarshi,Kryts,Kubachi,Lak,Lezgian,Rutul,Tabassaran,Tindi,Tsakhur,Tsez,Tsudaqar,Udi

Languages written with theCyrillic alphabet

Abaza,Abkhaz,Adyghe,Aghul,Akhvakh,Akkala Sámi,Aleut,Altay,Alyutor,Andi,Archi,Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian,Avar,Azeri,Bagvalal,Balkar,Bashkir,Belarusian,Bezhta,Bosnian,Botlikh,Budukh,Bulgarian,Buryat,Chamalal,Chechen,Chelkan,Chukchi,Chulym,Chuvash,Crimean Tatar,Dargwa,Daur,Dolgan,Dungan,Enets,Erzya,Even,Evenki,Gagauz,Godoberi,Hinukh,Hunzib,Ingush,Interslavic,Itelmen,Juhuri,Kabardian,Kaitag,Kalderash Romani,Kalmyk,Karaim,Karakalpak,Karata,Karelian,Kazakh,Ket,Khakas,Khanty,Khinalug,Khorasani Turkic,Khwarshi,Kildin Sámi,Kili,Komi,Koryak,Krymchak,Kryts,Kubachi,Kumandy,Kumyk,Kurdish,Kyrgyz,Lak,Lezgi,Lingua Franca Nova,Lithuanian,Ludic,Macedonian,Mansi,Mari,Moksha,Moldovan,Mongolian,Montenegrin,Nanai,Negidal,Nenets,Nganasan,Nivkh,Nogai,Old Church Slavonic,Oroch,Orok,Ossetian,Pontic Greek,Romanian,Rushani,Russian,Rusyn,Rutul,Selkup,Serbian,Shor,Shughni,Siberian Tatar,Sirenik,Slovio,Soyot,Tabassaran,Tajik,Talysh,Tat,Tatar,Teleut,Ter Sámi,Tindi,Tofa,Tsakhur,Tsez,Tsudaqar,Turkmen,Tuvan,Ubykh,Udege,Udi,Udmurt,Ukrainian,Ulch,Urum,Uyghur,Uzbek,Veps,Votic,Wakhi,West Polesian,Xibe,Yaghnobi,Yakut,Yazghulami,Yukaghir (Northern / Tundra),Yukaghir (Southern / Kolyma),Yupik (Central Siberian)

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

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