See data and maps.
Moroz, George (2021). “Nasalization”. In: Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD), v 2.0.1. Ed. by George Moroz, Michael Daniel, Konstantin Filatov, Timur Maisak, Timofey Mukhin, Irina Politova, Elena Shvedova, Samira Verhees and Chiara Naccarato. Moscow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6807070. https://lingconlab.ru/tald.
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General chapter: Phonology
Nasalized vowels are a common feature of Andic and Tsezic languages, however some researchers report a sporadic final n-delition that leads to the development of nasalized vowels in other branches (e.g. Bezhta, (Comrie et al. 2015)).