The Aukh dialect (, ) is a dialect of the
Chechen language
Chechen ( , ; , , ) is a Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian language spoken by approximately 1.8 million people, mostly in the Chechnya, Chechen Republic and by Chechens, members of the Chechen diaspora throughout Russia and the ...
, It is primarily spoken by residents in the northern part of
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Fede ...
, and the estimated number of speakers is about 160 thousand.
It is the native dialect of the
Aukhs society. Linguist Yuri Koryakov considers Aukh to be on par with Ingush and Chechen in the Vainakh language group.
Subdialects
* Aukh proper subdialect
* North Aukh subdialect
* South Aukh subdialect
Teips and subdialects
Phonology
In the Aukh dialect, similar to the Chechen language, there is an absence of words with the voiceless fricative consonant which is more common in Ingush. Additionally, both the Aukh dialect and the Chechen literary language exhibit vowel
nasalization
In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation in British English) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is .
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, particularly at the end of words, unlike Ingush. The vowel system of the Aukh dialect closely resembles that of the Chechen literary language.
Transitional between it and
Ingush
Ingush may refer to:
* Ingush language, Northeast Caucasian language
* Ingush people, an ethnic group of the North Caucasus
See also
*Ingushetia (disambiguation)
Ingushetia is a federal republic and subject of Russia.
Ingushetia may also refer ...
, the Aukh dialect is similar to the Chechen dialect in that in its verb forms, as in Chechen, the vowels and are widespread, while in Ingush they are very rare.
According to Professor I. Arsakhanov, "The Aukh dialect, although it occupies an intermediate position between the Chechen and Ingush languages, still gravitates to the Chechen language".
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(заглавие книги, указанное на обложке и на титульном листе — «Аккинский диалект в системе чечено-ингушского языка», а в выпускных данных — «Аккинский диалект в системе чечено-ингушских языков»)
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{{Languages of the Caucasus
Chechen language
Aukh
Northeast Caucasian languages