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World Service,29 Sep 1999,4 mins

Khinalig - a Dying Language

My Century

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High in the Caucasus mountains of Azerbaijan is the village of Khinalug where speaker Anver Mamedov is the schoolmaster. Mamedov is aware that times are changing and is worried that the Khinalig language spoken only in this village will not survive.

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