Nakh-Daghestanian · ISO 639-3 lbe
Lak Language Лакку
Lak is a Nakh-Daghestanian language spoken by about 154,820 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Lak is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Lak language
Lak (Лакку) is spoken by about 154,820 people, which makes it the 522nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Hiri Motu (180,000) and ahead of Ixil (140,000). It belongs to the Nakh-Daghestanian language family.
Where is Lak spoken?
Lak is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (91,533).
Lak is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Lak is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Avaric and Lezghian.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 lbe.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.