Back Албан бызшәа Abkhazian Qafqaz albanlarının dili Azerbaijani Aghuà Catalan Alwanische Sprache German Αλβανικά του Καυκάσου Greek Idioma albanés caucásico Spanish Albanien French Աղվաներեն Armenian კავკასიის ალბანეთის ენა Georgian Agvan Occitan
| Aghwan | |
|---|---|
| Old Udi Gargarian Caucasian Albanian | |
| Native to | Caucasian Albania |
| Era | 6th–8th century AD. Developed into Udi[1] |
| Caucasian Albanian | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xag |
xag | |
| Glottolog | aghw1237 |
 A 7th-century column capital with Caucasian Albanian text | |
Caucasian Albanian (also called Old Udi, Aluan or Aghwan)[2] is an extinct member of the Northeast Caucasian languages. It was spoken in Caucasian Albania, which stretched from current day south Dagestan to Azerbaijan. Linguists believe it is an early linguistic predecessor to the endangered Northeast Caucasian Udi language.[3] The distinct Caucasian Albanian alphabet used 52 letters.
Caucasian Albanian possibly corresponds to the "Gargarian" language identified by medieval Armenian historians. Despite its name, Caucasian Albanian bears no linguistic relationship whatsoever with the Albanian language spoken in Albania, which belongs to the Indo-European family.
- ^ Aghwan at MultiTree on the Linguist List
- ^ Gippert, Jost; Schulze, Wolfgang (2007). "Some remarks on the Caucasian Albanian palimpsests". Iran and the Caucasus. 11 (2): 201–211. doi:10.1163/157338407X265441.
- ^ Zaza Aleksidze, "Udi Language: Comparing Ancient Albanian with Contemporary Udi," in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:3 (Autumn 2003), p. 43.
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