Abstract:
The common Lezgian vocabulary in the Caucasian Albanian includes
the words denoting parts of a human’s body, relatives, activities, status
and other words relating to the human being as well as the words
denoting fl ora, fauna, building, food, units of time, inanimate creations,
natural phenomena, pronouns (personal, demonstrative, refl exive,
interrogative), numerals (from one to nine, ten, twenty, hundred),
adjectives, adverbs, verbs, deverbative nominals…
In the sound-correspondences the Caucasian Albanian and Udi,
with few exceptions, are represented with similar refl exes. Basic
phonematic processes as a result of which the phonological systems
of Caucasian Albanin and Udi, took place identically. In aff ricates the
following phonetic changes should be underlined: weak (glottalized
as well as non-glottalized) aff ricates were lost in anlaut and inlaut.
In Udi this process was completed, but in Caucasian Albanian it was
in the stage of completion. In auslaut the spirantization of weak
non-glottalized aff ricates took place, as regards the weak glottalized
aff ricates, they didn’t undergo changes. With respect to the intensive
aff ricates, they are preserved in both languages due to the fact that
correlation has been demolished according to intensivity. Additionally,
the spirantization of voiced aff ricates took place in both languages.
Lateral aff ricates were transformed into corresponding uvular aff ricates
(except *, which underwent spirantization).
Plosives are basically preserved unchangeably, except a *g sound
which as a rule occurs in Caucasian Albanian and Udi as ḳ. In spirants two basic changes took place. Correlation according to
intensivity has been demolished and lateral spirants were changed into
unvoiced uvular spirants (x).
Sonors are basically preserved unchangeably.
