| Tindi | |
| Nativename: | Идараб мицци |
| States: | North Caucasus |
| Region: | Southern Dagestan |
| Date: | 2020 census |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Caucasian |
| Fam1: | Northeast Caucasian |
| Fam2: | Avar–Andic |
| Fam3: | Andic |
| Fam4: | Akhvakh–Tindi |
| Fam5: | Karata–Tindi |
| Fam6: | Botlikh–Tindi |
| Fam7: | Bagvalal–Tindi |
| Iso3: | tin |
| Glotto: | tind1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Tindi |
| Map: | File:Northeast Caucasus languages map en.svg |
| Map2: | Lang Status 60-DE.svg |
| Pronunciation: | pronounced as /[idarab mitsːi]/ |
Tindi is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in the Russian republic of Dagestan. Tindis have no individual designation for their language, but those living in the village of call their language meaning 'the language of the Idar village'. It is only an oral language; Avar or Russian are used in written communication instead. Tindi vocabulary contains many loanwords from Avar, Turkish, Arabic, and Russian.[2] It has approximately 4,500 speakers.
There are 20 phonemic vowels in Tindi.[3] [4]
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | ||
| Mid | e eː | o oː | ||
| Open | a aː |
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyn- geal | Glottal | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | lateral | central | palatalized | |||||||||||||||
| lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | lenis | fortis | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | kː | kʲ | kːʲ | |||||||||||
| ejective | tʼ | kʼ | kʼʲ | ʔ | ||||||||||||||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡʲ | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡sː | t͡ʃ | t͡ʃː | t͡ɬː | q͡χː | |||||||||||
| ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡sːʼ | t͡ʃʼ | t͡ʃːʼ | t͡ɬːʼ | q͡χːʼ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | sː | ʃ | ʃː | ɬ | ɬː | ç | χ | χː | ħ | h | ||||||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ʁ | ʕ | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||||||||||||||
. Zagidat Magomedbekova . 2001 . Tindinskij Jazyk . Yazyki mira: Kavkazskie Yazyki . 283–291 . Moskva . Academia.