page_title: Archi language
hierarchical_section_title: Archi language
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Archi language and neighbouring villages.
context_page_description: Archi is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Archis in the village of Archib, southern Dagestan, Russia, and the six surrounding smaller villages.
  It is unusual for its many phonemes and for its contrast between several voiceless velar lateral fricatives, voiceless and ejective velar lateral affricates, and a voiced velar lateral fricative. It is an ergative–absolutive language with four noun classes and has a remarkable morphological system with huge paradigms and irregularities on all levels. Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root.
context_section_description: Archi /ɑːrˈtʃiː/ is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Archis in the village of Archib, southern Dagestan, Russia, and the six surrounding smaller villages.
  It is unusual for its many phonemes and for its contrast between several voiceless velar lateral fricatives, /ʟ̝̊, ʟ̝̊ʷ, ʟ̝̊ː, ʟ̝̊ːʷ/, voiceless and ejective velar lateral affricates, /k͡ʟ̝̊, k͡ʟ̝̊ʷ, k͡ʟ̝̊ʼ, k͡ʟ̝̊ʷʼ/, and a voiced velar lateral fricative, /ʟ̝/. It is an ergative–absolutive language with four noun classes and has a remarkable morphological system with huge paradigms and irregularities on all levels. Mathematically, there are 1,502,839 possible forms that can be derived from a single verb root.
caption: Map of where Archi is spoken (pink area)
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