Gagatli (russian: Гагатли; av, ГъагъалӀ) is a village in
Botlikh district in
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...
,
Russia
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Geographical location
It is located 14 km northeast of the village
Botlikh.
Language
The villagers speak the
Andi language
Andi is a Northeast Caucasian language belonging to the Avar–Andic branch spoken by about 5,800 ethnic Andi (2010) in the Botlikh region of Dagestan. The language is spoken in the villages Andi (along the river Andi-Koisu), Gunkha, Gagatl, ...
. In 1981, a linguistic expedition was undertaken by the
Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics of the Faculty of Philology
MSU led by
A. E. Kibrika.
[Vladimir Borshchev]
Expedition to Andi, August 1981
(memories)
References
Photo of the village
Geography of Dagestan
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