Botlikh language explained

Botlikh
Nativename:	Буйхалъи мицIцIи/Bujxałi mic’c’i
States:	North Caucasus
Region:	Southwestern Dagestan^[1]
Ethnicity:	3,788 Botlikh people (2020)
Speakers:	5,073
Date:	2020 census
Ref:	^[2]
Familycolor:	Caucasian
Fam1:	Northeast Caucasian
Fam2:	Avar–Andic
Fam3:	Andic
Fam4:	Akhvakh–Tindi
Fam5:	Karata–Tindi
Fam6:	Botlikh–Tindi
Iso3:	bph
Glotto:	botl1242
Glottorefname:	Botlikh
Map:	Lang Status 60-DE.svg

Botlikh (also spelled Botlix) is an Andic language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken by the Botlikhs in the Buikhe and Ashino villages in southwestern Dagestan, Russia by approximately 5,000 people, according to the 2020 census.

Further reading

• Book: Alekseev . M. . Azaev . X. . 2019 . Botlixsko-russkij slovar' . Moscow . Academia . ru.
• Book: Dirr, Adolf . 1928 . Einführung in das Studium der Kaukasischen Sprachen mit einer sprachenkarte . Leipzig . Verlag der Asia Major . de .
• Book: Gamzatova, G. G. . 2000 . Jazyki Dagestana . Jazyki Narodov Rossii . Machackala . Rossijskaja Akademija Nauk . ru.
• Book: Gudava, Togo E. . 1962 . ბოთლიხური ენა: გრამატიკული ანალიზი, ტექსტები, ლექსიკონი . The Botlikh language: Grammatical analysis, texts, lexicon . Tbilisi . Sak'art'velos SSR mec'nierebat'a akademiis gamomc'emloba . ka.
• Book: Gudava, Togo E. . 1976 . Iberijsko-kavkazskie jazyki . Jazyki narodov SSSR . IV . Moskva . Nauka . 293–306 . ru.
• George . Moroz . Chiara . Naccarato . Samira . Verhees . Variation in two dictionaries of Botlikh . Документирование языков и диалектов коренных малочисленных народов России . St. Petersburg . October 14-16, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221116013624/https://iling.spb.ru/events/language_documentation2019/moroz_etal.pdf . 2022-11-16 . en.
• Book: Saidova . P. A. . Abusov . M. G. . 2012 . Botlixsko-russkij slovar' . Makhachkala . IJaLI . ru.

External links

• The peoples of the Red Book: Botlikhs

Notes and References

1. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=RUE&seq=10 Ethnologue language map of European Russia, with Botlikh shown in the inset with reference number 9
2. https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab7_VPN-2020.xlsx 7. НАСЕЛЕНИЕ НАИБОЛЕЕ МНОГОЧИСЛЕННЫХ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОСТЕЙ ПО РОДНОМУ ЯЗЫКУ