Projekt

The objective of this project is a thorough documentation of Khinalug, a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily in the isolated village of Khinaliq, in the Caucasian state of Azerbaijan. Today, Khinalug has not more than 1,500 speakers; the people were heavily oppressed in the Stalin period. In the extension of the project, more language material will be annotated and uploaded in the DobeS archive. Furthermore, in a pilot project phase, some GPS-cartography will be done to document the traditional routes of transhumance towards the winter domiciles, called "yatags". The project is carried out by German researcher Monika Rind-Pawlowski with the help of the Khinalug speech community and Idris Aliyev, director of the Scientific Archive of the Institute for Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Science, Baku.

• Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert

  Universität Frankfurt am Main
  Fachbereich 09: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften
  Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft
  Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
  Frankfurt am Main