Archi language

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Archi
аршаттен чӏат
Native to	Russia
Region	Archib, Dagestan
Ethnicity	Archi people
Native speakers	1,712 (2020 census)[1]
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Lezgic[2] Archi
Writing system	Cyrillic script (developed in 2006 based on the Avar alphabet) Arabic script (19th century)[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aqc
Glottolog	arch1244
ELP	Archi
Map of where Archi is spoken (red area)
Archi is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)
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Archi /ɑːˈtʃiː/^[4] is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Archis in the village of Archib, southern Dagestan, Russia, and the six surrounding smaller villages.

It is unusual for its many phonemes and for its contrast between several voiceless velar lateral fricatives, /ʟ̝̊, ʟ̝̊ʷ, ʟ̝̊ː, ʟ̝̊ʷː/, voiceless and ejective velar lateral affricates, /k͡ʟ̝̊, k͡ʟ̝̊ʷ, k͡ʟ̝̊ʼ, k͡ʟ̝̊ʷʼ/, and a voiced velar lateral fricative, /ʟ̝/. It is an ergative–absolutive language with four noun classes^[5] and has a morphological system with irregularities on all levels.^[6] Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root.^[7]