Nakh-Daghestanian · ISO 639-3 lez
Lezghian Language Лезги
Lezghian is a Nakh-Daghestanian language spoken by about 633,610 people in 2 countries. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Lezghian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Lezghian
Language family
- Nakh-Daghestanian
- Daghestanian
- Lezgic
- Samur
- Eastern Samur
- Tabasaran-Aghul-Lezgi
- Aghul-Lezgi
- Lezghian
Writing system
Cyrillic script
About the Lezghian language
Lezghian (Лезги) is spoken by about 633,610 people, which makes it the 491st most spoken language in the world — just behind Asturian (650,000) and ahead of Adyghe (575,900). It belongs to the Nakh-Daghestanian language family and, more precisely, to the Aghul-Lezgi group within the Lezgic branch.
Where is Lezghian spoken?
Lezghian is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Russia (295,724).
Lezghian is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Lezghian is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 lez.
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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.