הונזיב

Hunzib (self-name гьонкьос мыц honƛʼos mɨc) is an East Tsezic language with roughly 1,400–3,500 speakers in three villages of the upper Avar-Koysu basin in southwestern Dagestan and a couple of settlements over the Georgian border. Together with Bezhta and Khvarshi it forms the East-Tsezic sub-branch of Tsezic; the language has five genders (an unusual number even for the Caucasus), an ergative-absolutive case system with locational case stacks, and was first comprehensively described by Helma van den Berg (1995).