Avars As Highlanders and Armed People
The "МагIарулал" Ma'arulal means "inhabitants of the top grounds, mountaineers", but so named itself not everything earlier, the part of Avars belonged to other category "Хьиндалал" X'indalal (with soft "χ"), so-called "inhabitants of plains (warm valleys) and gardeners". The name Avars carries for Avars narrower value, especially national and is connected with former statehood. "Avar" is a significant part of the Avaria making Khunzakh Khanate, that formed approximately in XII century after disintegration of local empire Sаrir (The Throne). From the middle of XIX century this territory was the Avarian District of the Daghestanian area. Now it is the District Khunzakh (χunzaχ in a literary Avar language or χwnzaa in Av.local dialects) of Daghestan.
The modern literary language of Avars (Awar mac'), in olden times and today, is known among Avars as language of "boʔ" (bolmac'). Avarian word "bo" "army, armed people", according to reconstructions, was originally *ʔωar in the proto-avarian language ("ʔ" is here glottal stop).
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