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Alternate Names
Enzeb, Ghunzib, Gunzib, Hontl’os myts, Khunzal, Khunzaly, Khvanal, Xunzal
Population
1,010 (2010 census). Ethnic population: 2,000. Total users in all countries: 1,420.
Location
Dagestan republic: Tsuntinsky district, Garbutl, Gunzib and Nakhada; Kizilyurtovksy district, Stalskoe.
Language Maps
Language Status
6b (Threatened). Statutory language of provincial identity in Dagestan Autonomous Republic (1994, Constitution, Article 10).
Classification
Dialects
None known. Separate from Bezhta [kap] (1989 B. Comrie) but reportedly very similar to it.
Typology
27 consonants, 16 vowels, word stress generally linked to prefinal vowel; 5 noun classes; agreement between nouns and coreferent adjectives, pronouns, verbs, and adverbs marked by prefixes; nominative-ergative system; demonstratives.
Language Use
Language Development
No literacy in Hunzib. Avar [ava] is literary language. Dictionary. Grammar.
Language Resources
Writing
Unwritten [Qaax].
Muslim.