| Tindi | |
| Nativename: | Идараб мицци Idarab mittsi |
| States: | North Caucasus |
| Region: | Southern Dagestan |
| Date: | 2010 census |
| Ref: | e18 |
| 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 |
Tindi is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in the Russian republic of Dagestan. Tindis have no individual designation for their langiage, 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.[1] It has approximately 2,150 speakers.
| 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.