Cek, also known as Jek or Dzhek, is a
Northeast Caucasian
The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestani or ''Vainakh-Daghestani'', is a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia and in Northern Azerbaijan as well as in ...
language spoken by about 1,500 to 11,000
Jek people in the village of
Jek in the mountains of northern
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
.
Tərxan Paşazadə, "Dünyanın nadir etnik qrupu – Azərbaycan cekliləri", Azərbaycan qəzeti
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The Jek language is not a written language and Azeri
Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic peoples, Turkic people living mainly in Azerbaijan (Iran), northwestern Iran and the Azerbaijan, Republi ...
serves as the literary language of the Jek, as well as all Shahdagh people
Shahdagh people (also spelt ''Shah Dagh'', ''Shakhdag'', ''Shakhdagh'' and ''Shadag''; ''Şahdağ'' in Azerbaijani orthography) is a generic term for several small ethnic groups living in the vicinity of Mount Shahdagh in northern Azerbaijan, pa ...
s.[Wixman, Ronald]
''The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook''
New York: M.E. Sharpe and London, Macmillan. 1984.
References
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External links
Tərxan Paşazadə, "Dünyanın nadir etnik qrupu – Azərbaycan cekliləri", Azərbaycan qəzeti
* ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrxnrvU190A Speech.
Jek (Quba)
Northeast Caucasian languages
Languages of Azerbaijan
Endangered Caucasian languages
ru:Джекский язык