Also Known As:
Hinuq, Hinux, гинухский язык, ჰინუხური ენა, ჰინუზას მეც, гьинузас мец, hinuzas mec, Գինուխերեն, Ginukh, Ginux, Ginukhtsy, Guang
Dialects & Varieties
Sketch Grammar of Hinuq
Sketch Grammar of Hinuq
Endangered
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~600
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~600
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"[Hinuq children] also acquire Tsez or Bezhta if their mother is a Tsez or Bezhta speaker, but normally their command of Hinuq is better. They come into contact with Russian as soon as they use mass media, mostly in the form of television programs, music and Internet. This contact intensifies when they start to attend school. More generally, Russian is the main lingua franca today in Daghestan and used by Hinuq speakers of all ages (except for a small group of illiterate elder women).Before Russians arrived, Avar used to be the lingua franca in the area of Daghestan where Hinuq is spoken. Today it is still the language that Hinuq children learn in school as part of their ‘mother tongue education’."
Location and Context
Countries
Russia;
Location Description
"Most [speakers] live in the village of Hinuq (Russian: Ginux) in the Caucasian mountains (Cuntinskij Rajon, Daghestan, Russian Federation). Due to the harsh living conditions, in the 1980s Hinuq speakers began to move mainly to the village of Monastirksi in the Daghestanian lowlands. Currently more than 100 Hinuq people live there and their number is constantly growing."
Government Support
No official status
Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian, Avar, Tsez, Bezhta
Number of Other Language Speakers:
Almost all
Domains of Other Languages:
Russian: official purposes, education, communication outside the community (and sometimes inside it); Avar: official "mother tongue," taught in schools, used with Avar people; Tsez and Bezhta: used by speakers with relations among Tsez and Bezhta people
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Cyrillic (unofficial)
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Comments on writing systems:
"Hinuq does not have an official status in Russia and thus officially does not have a script. For scientific publications on Hinuq in Russian the Avar Cyrillic script is used."
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