SOME FEATURES OF THE AVAR LANGUAGE IN THE ZAKATAL DIALECT

Abstract

Speakers of the Zakatal dialect of Avar, isolated territorially from the main mass of Avar dialects and being in close contact with Azerbaijani speakers for centuries, Tsakhur and Georgian languages, have passed an independent and somewhat different from other Avar dialects path of development. This fact has contributed, on the one hand, to preservation in the dialect of many phenomena, characteristic of the more ancient period of the development of Dagestan languages, on the other hand, there are a number of specific, and sometimes innovative features. In this paper, the author analyzes some features of the verb and grammar classes in the Zakatal dialect of the Avar language. The results of the study give grounds to say that there are broad prospects for further, a deeper study of all features of this dialect: the case system, nature of vocabulary change, phono-morphological influence on borrowed vocabulary, etc.