Jek language

Jek
Cekcə məz цIека meз c’eka mez
Native to	Azerbaijan
Region	Quba
Ethnicity	Jek people
Native speakers	(undated figure of 1,500–11,000)[1]
Language family	Northeast Caucasian Lezgic Samur Southern Samur Kryts Jek
Writing system	unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	dzhe1238

A speaker of Jek language, recorded in Germany.

Cek,^[2] also known as Jek or Dzhek, is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 1,500 to 11,000 Jek people in the village of Jek in the mountains of northern Azerbaijan.^[1]

The Jek language is not a written language and Azeri serves as the literary language of the Jek, as well as all Shahdagh peoples.^[3]

References

1. Tərxan Paşazadə, "Dünyanın nadir etnik qrupu – Azərbaycan cekliləri", Azərbaycan qəzeti
2. "Н. МАРР : "Яфетические языки", Большая сов. энциклопедия, 1-е изд., т. 65, Москва : Сов. Энц., 1931, стр. 841". Archived from the original on 2012-10-28. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
3. Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. New York: M.E. Sharpe and London, Macmillan. 1984.

External links

• Tərxan Paşazadə, "Dünyanın nadir etnik qrupu – Azərbaycan cekliləri", Azərbaycan qəzeti
• Большая Энциклопедия в 62 томах: Джеки
• Speech.