The Tindin language (Tindian, Tindali, Iderinsky, Idara) is the language of the Tindians .
| Tinda language | |
|---|---|
| Self name | idarab mitstsi (idarab, tyndaderil) [idarab micci]; (Avar.) t'indaderil. |
| Country |  Russia |
| Regions |  Dagestan |
| Total number of speakers | |
| Status | |
| Classification | |
| Category | Languages of Eurasia |
North Caucasian superfamily (not generally accepted)
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| Writing | Cyrillic |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | cau |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| WALS | |
| Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
| Ethnologue | |
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There is no generalizing self-name - native speakers call themselves by the names of villages. The language of domestic, intra-tribal communication. Tindans are bilingual - own Avar . Unwritten (since 1993 a Cyrillic alphabet has been developed).
Tinda is distinguished from other Andean languages by the following: in phonetics, there is no correlation in intensity among abruptive consonants; in grammar - the neutralization of locative and allativ, the use of reduplication for the formation of adjectives (bikI 'ikI' ab - “severely curved” from bikI'ab “curve”) and intensive forms of the verb (igigyo from igoo “made”).
Allocate: the actual Tinda dialect (speech of the villages of Tindi and Echeda) and Aknad-Angid dialect.
Notes
Literature
- Gudava T. E. Tinda language // Languages of the peoples of the USSR. T.IV. Iberian-Caucasian languages. M., 1967;
- Magomedbekova Z. M. Tinda language // NM: QW.