It’s not the loss of their severely endangered language that worries the residents of Budukh, a hillside village of about 150 people overshadowed by the mountains of Azerbaijan’s Greater Caucasus range. It’s the lack of a good road and how to manage without it.
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Elnur Aliyev
Elnur Aliyev (born on the December 24th, 1990) is a linguist, specialist of Turkic and endangered Caucasian languages. He graduated BA and MA on Caucasus Studies at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and continued with PhD research. Since Fall 2016 he is visiting PhD candidate at Malmo University, Sweden. He is working as assistant, specialist of Daghestanian languages on “Diachronic Atlas of Cultures and Languages” project at Lund University, Sweden. He is a director of “Caucasian Heritage Research Institute” in Georgia.