Tabasaran language

Tabasaran (also written Tabassaran) is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Lezgic branch. It is spoken by the Tabasaran people in the southern part of the Russian Republic of Dagestan. There are two main dialects: North (Khanag) and South Tabasaran. It has a literary language based on the Southern dialect, one of the official languages of Dagestan.

Tabasaran
табасаран чIал
tabasaran ç̇al
Native toNorth Caucasus
RegionSouthern Dagestan
EthnicityTabasarans
Native speakers
126,900 (2010 census)
Northeast Caucasian
Official status
Official language in
 Russia
Language codes
ISO 639-3tab
Glottologtaba1259
ELPTabasaran

Tabasaran is an ergative language. The verb system is relatively simple; verbs agree with the subject in number, person and (in North Tabasaran) class. North Tabasaran has two noun classes (that is, grammatical gender), whereas Southern Tabasaran lacks noun classes / gender.

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