Archi is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Archi people in and around the village of Archib (Арчиб) in the south of the Republic of Dagestan in southwest of the Russian Federation. In 2010 there were about 970 speakers of Archi. It is thought to related to Avar and Lak, although its exact relationship to these languages and others has not been established as yet.
Until recently Archi was unwritten, except in some scholarly publications, and a version of the Latin alphabet was used. In 2006 a Cyrillic-based orthography based on the Avar Cyrillic alphabet was developed and used in the Archi-Russian-English Dictionary by the Surrey Morphological Group.
Download an alphabet chart for Arhi (Excel)
Details of the Archi alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel
ʕalí-ʕajšátlirak šijtʼámmul áʟmul os ʕalí-ʕajšát érdili, jámurmin qӀʼ˳éwu lo íwdili, os ʕabdúl-mutʼállip, os ʕabdúl-qʼahír. jémim ébdili lap ɬ̄áӀmat̄ib adámtil. jámurmin édili ɬibíjbu qʼilí kamárt̄ut uχ. jámut as zaħmát édili adám ítʼukulla. jámut uχ éɬ̄as χӀeréš s̄̌umíj daqӀáli, qӀʼ˳etʼu lówu χír-uwli.
Как к Али-Айшат пришли черти. Жила-была Али-Айшат, и было у нее два сына, один Абдул Муталиб, другой Абдул Кагир. Они были очень богатые люди. Поле у нее засеивалось тридцатью мерами зерна. Обработать его было трудно, так как помощников у них не было. Пошла Али-Айшат со своими сыновьями вниз по реке на жатву.
Source: http://www.philol.msu.ru/~languedoc/corpus/archi/xhtml/archi-txo-12.xhtml
Information about the Archi language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archi_language
http://www.philol.msu.ru/~languedoc/eng/archi/index.php
https://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/languages/archi/
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, Tsudaqar, Udi
Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aghul, Akhvakh, Akkala Sámi, Aleut, Altay, Alyutor, Andi, Archi, Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian, Avar, Azeri, Bagvalal, Balkar, Baraba Tatar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Besermyan, 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, Komi-Permyak, Komi-Yazva, Komi-Zyrian, 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, Oroqen, 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, Tsudaqar, 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)
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page last modified: 04.08.22
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