Editing Avar language (section)

==Geographic distribution==
[[File:Границы распространения аварского языка как международный.png|Territory and borders of distribution of the Avar language (in the [[Yañalif|Latin alphabet]] of the 1930s)|thumb|right]]

It is spoken mainly in the western and southern parts of the Russian Caucasus republic of [[Dagestan]], and the [[Balaken]], [[Zaqatala Rayon|Zaqatala]] regions of north-western [[Azerbaijan]].<ref name=e25/> Some [[Avars (Caucasus)|Avars]] live in other regions of Russia. There are also small communities of speakers living in the Russian republics of [[Chechnya]] and [[Kalmykia]]; in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Ukraine]], [[Jordan]], and the [[Marmara Sea]] region of [[Turkey]]. It is spoken by about 1,200,000 people worldwide. [[UNESCO]] classifies Avar as vulnerable to extinction.<ref>{{cite web|title=UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger|url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-1069.html|publisher=[[UNESCO]] | access-date=19 April 2015}}</ref>