Tindi is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in the southwest of Dagestan in the Russian Republic by about 2,150 people. The Tindi people call their language Идараб мицци (Idarab mitstsi) or 'the language of Idar village'.
Tindi is rarely written and Tindi speakers generally write in Avar or Russian. Tindi is used only domestically, and the number of speakers is in decline.
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Details of the Tindi alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel
Словарлlи ийа Дагъистаᴴлlа авар-гІанди-цезалуб группалІи бухьōб хъвай-хъвай гьикl’уб идараб мийила 8 азардалъиха рацlōргур аᴴлъараби. Эба-эба идараб аᴴлъарчlи аха ударенийалē билъо. Аᴴлъабалъа мисалабила релъō: предложенийаби, фразиологизмаби, басаᴴраби. Словархъа хери гоъō идараб миццилlа грамматика, гlуруси-идараб миццилlа аᴴлъарабалlа сийáхІи, гьаᴴлlа макlвабалlала, гьайамлІа церабалlала сийахlаби. Словарчlо пайа бехилъʼа реси ийа кавказилlа мицабала аха хlалтlийōр гlалимзабалъала, идараб миццила, овуб бакІва-балІварла бийáлоб гайамлъала. Гьечlа словарлlа кумаки букlилъе гlуруси мицци бийаловшулъа.
The dictionary contains 8000 most frequently used Tindi words which is an unwritten language belonging to the Avar-Andi-Tsez group of Daghestan languages. Tindi words are given with accent marks. A dialect form is also adduced if it differs from the form of the principal dialect. As a supplement lists of microtoponyms and anthroponyms, a Russian-Tindi index of words and a brief grammar survey of Tindi are also given in the dictionary. The dictionary is intended for specialists in the Caucasian and comparative linguistics, history of culture of the Caucasian peoples. The dictionary also pursues quite a practical object - it can help Tindi-speakers to master Russian.
Source: Магомедова П.Т. Тиндинско-русский словарь (2003)
Sample text provided by Jin Wei Hii
Information about Tindi | Numbers
Information about Tindi language and people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tindi_language
http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/tindis.shtml
http://www.connersaa.com/usd/_lfxx/_tindi.htm
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tin
Aghul, Akhvakh, Andi, Archi, Avar, Bagvalal, Batsbi, Bezhta, Botlikh, Budukh, Caucasian Albanian, Chamalal, Chechen, Dargwa, Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Kaitag, Karata, Khinalug, Khwarshi, Kryts, Kubachi, Lak, Lezgian, Rutul, Tabassaran, Tindi, Tsakhur, Tsez, Udi
Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aghul, Akhvakh, Akkala Sámi, Aleut, Altay, Alyutor, Andi, Archi, Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian, Avar, Azeri, Bagvalal, Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bezhta, Bosnian, Botlikh, Budukh, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chamalal, Chechen, Chelkan, Chukchi, Chulym, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dargwa, Daur, Dolgan, Dungan, Enets, Erzya, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Interslavic, Itelmen, Juhuri, Kabardian, Kaitag, Kalderash Romani, Kalmyk, Karaim, Karakalpak, Karata, Karelian, Kazakh, Ket, Khakas, Khanty, Khinalug, Khorasani Turkic, Khwarshi, Kildin Sámi, Kili, Komi, Koryak, Krymchak, Kryts, Kubachi, Kumandy, Kumyk, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgi, Lingua Franca Nova, Lithuanian, Ludic, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Nanai, Negidal, Nenets, Nganasan, Nivkh, Nogai, Old Church Slavonic, Oroch, Orok, Ossetian, Pontic Greek, Romanian, Rushani, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Selkup, Serbian, Shor, Shughni, Siberian Tatar, Sirenik, Slovio, Soyot, Tabassaran, Tajik, Talysh, Tat, Tatar, Teleut, Ter Sámi, Tindi, Tofa, Tsakhur, Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ubykh, Udege, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Ulch, Urum, Uyghur, Uzbek, Veps, Votic, Wakhi, West Polesian, Xibe, Yaghnobi, Yakut, Yazghulami, Yukaghir (Northern / Tundra), Yukaghir (Southern / Kolyma), Yupik (Central Siberian)
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