11 Facts About Tsez language

Tsez language lacks a literary tradition and is poorly represented in written form.

Tsez language is not taught in school and instead Avar is taught for the first five years and Russian afterwards.

Tsez language grammar was first analyzed by the Georgian linguist Davit Imnaishvili in 1963.

Tsez language can be divided into the following dialects, with their Tsez language names given in parentheses:.

Hinukh and Khwarshi were once regarded as dialects of the Tsez language but are now commonly viewed as distinct languages of the same family.

In Tsez language it is sometimes even possible to use both the archaic and the regular and more productive -bi plural for a word.

Experiments have shown that Tsez language speakers do not assign any noun classes to new words for objects or places with which they are unfamiliar.

Tsez language has a rich set of particles, most of them occurring as clitics.

In Tsez language it is possible to create new words from combining existing ones; usually nouns and verbs are derived, but there exist compound adjectives and adverbs.

Copulas are used in the Tsez language to combine the subject with a noun phrase or with predicative adjectives and can in these cases be translated with the English copula "to be".

In Tsez language this is expressed by the verbal suffix -l; the subject of the clause then takes the possessive case instead of the ergative, while the object of the verb is in the absolutive.