Cek, also known as Jek or Dzhek, is a
Northeast Caucasian
The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestani or ''Vainakh-Daghestani'', is a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia and in Northern Azerbaijan as well as ...
language spoken by about 1,500 to 11,000
Jek people
Jek people ( also spelt Jeks, Jeklilar ( az, Ceklilər), Jack or Dzhek people) are a Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian ethnic group in Azerbaijan. The Jeks are one of the numerically small Shahdagh people, Shahdag peoples.Wixman, ...
in the village of
Jek in the mountains of northern
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
.
Tərxan Paşazadə, "Dünyanın nadir etnik qrupu – Azərbaycan cekliləri", Azərbaycan qəzeti
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The Jek language is not a written language and Azeri
Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. They are the second-most numer ...
serves as the literary language of the Jek, as well as all Shahdagh peoples.[Wixman, Ronald]
''The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook''
New York: M.E. Sharpe and London, Macmillan. 1984.
References
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External links
Tərxan Paşazadə, "Dünyanın nadir etnik qrupu – Azərbaycan cekliləri", Azərbaycan qəzeti
* ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrxnrvU190A Speech.
Jek (Quba)
Northeast Caucasian languages
Languages of Azerbaijan
Endangered Caucasian languages
ru:Джекский язык