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The Aeqqii language (Aeqqii: аьккхийн мотт, romanized: aeqqijn mott) is a Vainakh language. It is primarily spoken by residents in the middle part of Dagestan. A more-or-less accurate number of individuals who speak this language is unknown.

History
Speakers of the Aeqqii language may have originally lived near the northern slope of Mount Yatsebkort, where the source of the Gekhi river begins.

The earliest evidence of the Aeqqii is contained in the Old Russian article list of the Embassy to Georgia 1587‒1588, in which the exoethnonym Okoki is present. Therefore, the migration of native speakers to the east took place no later than the 16th century.

According to the All-Union Central Committee of the New Alphabet, in the summer of 1933 it was known that the Aeqqii inhabited five auls within the Kazbekovsky district and Novolaksky district, namely Leninaul, Kalininaul, Chapayevo, Novolakskoye and Novokuli.

After conflict situations involving the use of weapons by the Finnish side against Soviet border guards from October 7, 1936 to November 26, 1939, the Soviet Union began a war against Finland. The subsequent failures of the Soviet troops in the Winter War caused an anti-Soviet insurgency in the North Caucasus, which lasted from 1940 to 1944, as a result of which the Aeqqii were deported to Central Asia along with the rest of the Vainakhs (except for the Kists), and their auls were inhabited by Laks and Avars from the mountainous regions of Dagestan.

By the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of October 5, 1943, the monoethnic Aukh district was established in the foothill area of the Khasavyurt district, taking into account the ethnic composition of the population. It was supposed to take into account the needs of the national development of the population, open schools with teaching in their native language, and establish a seal. Aukh district de jure became an administrative-territorial unit of Dagestan.

After the Aeqqii were deportated, on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR of June 7, 1944, the Aukh district was renamed Novolaksky, and part of the territory was transferred to the neighboring Kazbekovsky district.

After the issuance of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of January 9, 1957, the Aeqqii formally got the opportunity to return home.