Karata
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- Language: Karata
- Alternate names: Karatin, Kirdi, Karatai
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:kpt
- Language family: North Caucasian, East Caucasian, Avar-Andic, Andic
- Number of speakers: 5,000
- Script: Cyrillic script
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Introduction
Dagestan on Russian map
This Andic language is spoken in Southern Dagestan (in Southern Russia).
The verb
Sample verb 'to plough'.
| Present | b-eL'L'-ida ida |
| Imperfective participle | b-eL'-id-o-b |
| Present habitual | b-eL'L'-ida |
| Preterite | b-eL'L'e |
| Imperfect | b-eL'-ata b-ik̥'a |
| Inflectional Future | b-eL'-a-̄s |
| Future imperfective | b-eL'L'-ida b-ik̥'-a-̄s |