[5] It is spoken in the Tsunta and Kizilyurt districts of Dagestan and in two villages across the Russian border in Georgia.

Like a number of other Northeast Caucasian languages, Hunzib has a grammatical gender system with five classes.

Gender marking is covert on nouns, but appears in agreement on verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and adverbial constructions.

A number of other case-like markers indicate direction and include dative, adessive, superessive, contactive, comitative and allative declensions.

A small number of Hunzib nouns exhibit stem alternation, like "moon" ABS [bot͡so], GEN [bɨt͡sə].