Editing Avar language (section)

==Literature==
The literary language is based on the болмацӏ (''bolmacʼ''){{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}—''bo'' = "army" or "country", and ''macʼ'' = "language"—the common language used between speakers of different dialects and languages. The ''bolmacʼ'' in turn was mainly derived from the dialect of [[Khunzakh]], the capital and cultural centre of the Avar region, with some influence from the southern dialects. Nowadays the literary language is influencing the dialects, levelling out their differences.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}

The most famous figure of modern Avar literature is [[Rasul Gamzatov]] (died November 3, 2003), the People's Poet of Dagestan. Translations of his works into [[Russian language|Russian]] have gained him a wide audience all over the former [[Soviet Union]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}