Aukh dialect
The Aukh dialect is a dialect of the Chechen language. It is primarily spoken by residents in the northern part of Dagestan, and the estimated number of speakers is about 160 thousand.
| Aukh dialect | |
|---|---|
| Chechen: Ӏовхойн диалект, Russian: Ауховский диалект | |
| Ethnicity | Chechens |
| Geographic distribution | Dagestan, Aukh |
Native speakers | 160,000 |
Ethnographic map of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Aukhs green | |
According to Professor I. Arsakhanov, "the Aukh dialect, although it occupies an intermediate position between the Chechen and Ingush languages, still gravitates to the Chechen language". In the Aukh dialect, similar to the Chechen language, there is an absence of words with the fricative deaf consonant "f," which is more common in Ingush. Additionally, both the Aukh dialect and the Chechen literary language exhibit vowel nasalization, particularly at the end of words, unlike Ingush. The vocalism of the Aukh dialect closely resembles that of the Chechen literary language.