Kryts language

Kryts (Kryc) is a Lezgic language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken in parts of the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan by 6,000 people in 1975. Its dialects are Kryts, Jek, Khaput, , and Alyk, which are all quite distinct to the point of only partial mutual intelligibility, therefore they could also be considered separate languages in a dialect continuum.

Kryts is endangered, classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Phonology

Consonants

• /ʁ/ may also be realized as [É¢] or [qː], in complementary distribution.
• Sounds /tÍ¡s, dÍ¡z/ only occur in other dialects of the language.
• /h/ may vary from a glottal sound to an epiglottal fricative /ʜ/.

Vowels

• /i/ can be heard as [ɨ], in free variation
• The four vowels may also be pharyngealized as /iˤ, uˤ, eˤ, aˤ/.

Orthography

In 2020, a dictionary was published in the Khaput variety, using the Latin script.

References

External links

• Kryts basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database