Budukh or Budugh (Будад мез, Budad mez[3]) is a Lezgic language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken in parts of the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan.

[2] Authier (2010) reports that Budugh has six 'gender-number' classes: Verbs normally agree with their absolutive argument (intransitive subject or transitive object) in gender.

Consider the following paradigm for the verb 'keep' in the perfective (Authier 2009): In this paradigm, /ˤa/ is a preverb which must appear with the verb root /q/ 'keep', and the agreement morphology appears between the preverb and the root.

Due to historical changes, the relationships between the various members of an agreement paradigm are often more complex and show changes of vowel and/or consonant.

The following perfective paradigm for 'go' shows this (with the reconstructed form shown after the *) Budukh is an SOV language, as seen in the following example: Ma'lla'-cırMullah-ERGlemérdonkeyğùtu-riNHUM.PL:beat:PRESMa'lla'-cır lemér ğùtu-riMullah-ERG donkey NHUM.PL:beat:PRES'Mullah beat the donkeys'It has possessors before possessed nouns: Mallá-coMullah-ADLOCrijdaughterMallá-co rijMullah-ADLOC daughter'the mullah's daughter'Adjectives appear before the nouns that they modify: q'usúoldMallá'mullahq'usú Mallá'old mullah'the old mullah'There are two orthographies for Budukh, and it is beginning to be introduced into schools.