page_title: Lak language
section_title: Writing systems
hierarchical_section_title: Lak language / Writing systems
caption_attribution_description: lak alphabet (1928-1938)
context_page_description: The Lak language is a Northeast Caucasian language forming its own branch within this family. It is the language of the Lak people from the Russian autonomous republic of Dagestan, where it is one of six standardized languages. It is spoken by about 157,000 people.
context_section_description: The Lak language was written using the Arabic script until 1928. Afterwards it was written with a Latin alphabet for ten years, and since 1938 it has been written in Cyrillic.
  The Lak alphabet in Cyrillic initially included 48 letters and later 54 letters with double letters as "тт", "пп", "чч", "хьхь", etc.:
caption: Obsolete Lak alphabets in Latin script
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