Khinalug language

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Khinalug
каьтш мицI / kätš micʼ
Pronunciation	[kætʃ mit͡sʼ]
Native to	Azerbaijan
Region	Quba
Native speakers	3,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Khinalug
Writing system	Cyrillic script, Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kjj
Glottolog	khin1240
ELP	Khinalugh
Khinalug (in Azerbaijan)
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Khinalug (also spelled Khinalig, Khinalugi, Xinalug(h), Xinaliq or Khinalugh) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 3,000 people in the villages of Khinalug and Gülüstan, Quba in the mountains of Quba Rayon, northern Azerbaijan. It forms its own independent branch within the Northeast Caucasian language family.^[2]

Khinalug is endangered,^[3] and classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.^[4]