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Tsez, also known as Dido (цезяс мец cezyas mec or цез мец cez mec in Tsez) is a Northeast Caucasian language with about 15,354
speakers spoken by the Tsez, a Muslim people in the mountainous Tsunta district of southern and western Dagestan in Russia.
The name is said to derive from the Tsez word for eagle, which is most likely a folk etymology. The name Dido is derived from
the Georgian word დიდი (didi), meaning big. Tsez lacks a literary tradition and is poorly represented in written form. Avar
and Russian are used as literary languages locally, even in schools. However, attempts have been made to develop a stable
orthography for the Tsez language as well as its relatives, mainly for the purpose of recording traditional folklore; thus,
a Cyrillic script based on that of Avar is often used. Fluency of Avar is usually higher among men than women, and the younger
people tend to be more fluent in Russian than in Tsez, which is probably due to the lack of education in and about the language.
Tsez is not taught in school and instead Avar is taught for the first five years and Russian afterwards. The vocabulary shows
many traces of influences of Avar, Georgian, Arabic and Russian, mainly through loanwords and, in the case of Russian, even
in grammar and style. There are also loanwords of Turkic origin. These factors may eventually lead to the decline of use of
the Tsez language, as it is more and more replaced by Avar and Russian, partly due to loss of traditional culture among the
people and the adoption of a Western clothing, technology and architecture. Tsez grammar was first analyzed by the Georgian
linguist Davit Imnaishvili in 1963. Currently, a collection of Tsez folklore texts (written in the Mokok dialect) is in production. |
Names (more)[br] Tsezeg[bg] Цезки език [de] Tsesische Sprache [en] Dido [eo] Ceza lingvo [eu] Didoera [fi] Didon kieli [fr] Tsez [ka] დიდოური ენა [mk] Цезички јазик [pt] Língua tsez [ru] Цезский язык [es] Idioma tsez [tr] Tsez dili [uk] Цезька мова |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : ddoLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ddohttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:ddo More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: ddoFreebase ISO 639-3 : ddo GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |