Kryts
кърыцIаь мез ġrəċä mez
цIека meз ċeka mez
Native to	Azerbaijan
Region	Quba Rayon
Ethnicity	Kryts people
Native speakers	5,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Lezgic Samur Southern Samur Kryts
Dialects	Kryts Jek Khaput Yergyudzh Alyk
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kry
Glottolog	kryt1240
ELP	Kryts
Kryts is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]

Kryts (Kryc) is a Samur language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken in parts of the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan by 6,000 people in 1975.^[1] Its dialects are Kryts, Jek, Khaput, Yergyudzh, and Alyk, which are all quite distinct to the point of only partial mutual intelligibility, therefore they could also be considered separate languages in a dialect continuum.^[1]

Kryts is endangered,^[3][4] classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.^[5]

Phonology[edit]

Consonants[edit]

• /ʁ/ may also be realized as [ɢ] or [qː], in complementary distribution.
• Sounds /t͡s, d͡z/ only occur in other dialects of the language.
• An /h/ may vary from a glottal sound to an epiglottal fricative /ʜ/.

Vowels[edit]

• /i/ can be heard as [ɨ], in free variation
• The four vowels may also be pharyngealized as /iˤ, uˤ, eˤ, aˤ/.

References[edit]

• Authier, Gilles (2009). Grammaire kryz. Collection Linguistique (Société de linguistique de Paris). Vol. 93. Leuven: Peeters. ISBN 9789042923157.

External links[edit]

• Kryts basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database