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Since the birth of comparative linguistics in the 19th century, the riddle of the apparently isolated Caucasian language families has attracted the attention of many scholars, who have endeavored to relate them to each other or to languages outside the Caucasus region. The most promising proposals
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of languages. According to Asya Pereltsvaig, "grammatical differences between the three groups of languages are considerable. These differences force the more conservative historical linguistics to treat the three language families of the Caucasus as unrelated."
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consisting of a single consonant, make comparison between them unusually difficult, and it has not been possible to establish a genetic relationship with any certainty.
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is predominant, with around 9 million speakers in Azerbaijan and more than 10 million in North Western Iran. Other Turkic languages spoken include
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There are no known affinities between the South Caucasian and North Caucasian families. Nevertheless, some scholars have proposed the single name
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Other languages historically and currently spoken in the Caucasus area can be placed into families with a much wider geographical distribution.
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Three of these families have no current indigenous members outside the Caucasus, and are considered indigenous to the area. The term
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see the Northeast (Nakh-Dagestanian) and Northwest (Abkhaz–Adyghe) families as related and propose uniting them in a single
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languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the
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for all the Caucasian language families, North and South, in an attempt to unify the Caucasian languages under one family.
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are connections between the Northeast and Northwest Caucasian families and each other or with languages formerly spoken in
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Nichols, Johanna. 2003. The Nakh-Daghestanian consonant correspondences. In Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite (eds.),
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throughout medieval times until the early 20th century. In the nineteenth century, it was considered that the best
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Common West Caucasian: The Reconstruction of its Phonological System and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology
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Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson
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Some linguists have claimed affinities between the Northwest Caucasian (Circassian) family and the extinct
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Tuite, Kevin. (1999). The myth of the Caucasian Sprachbund: The case of ergativity. Lingua. 108. 1-29.
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Arkadiev, Peter & Maisak, Timur. (2018). Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian languages.
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BASQUE AND CAUCASIAN: A SURVEY OF THE METHODS USED IN ESTABLISHING ANCIENT GENETIC AFFILIATIONS
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In Quest for God and Freedom: The Sufi Response to the Russian Advance in the North Caucasus
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Below are selected basic vocabulary items for all three language families of the Caucasus.
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is generally restricted to these families, which are spoken by about 11.2 million people.
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A case of taboo-motivated lexical replacement in the indigenous languages of the Caucasus
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A Case of Taboo-Motivated Lexical Replacement in the Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus
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Atlas of the Caucasian Languages with very detailed Language Guide (by Yuri B. Koryakov)
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The Northeast and Northwest Caucasian families are notable for their high number of
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From North to North West: How North-West Caucasian Evolved from North Caucasian
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Alarodian is a proposed connection between Northeast Caucasian and the extinct
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North Caucasian languages: comparison of three classification approaches
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Caucausian section of the Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
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Languages of the World: Ibero-Caucasian and Pidgin-Creole Fascicle One
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language family, with a total of about 4.3 million speakers. Includes
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allows the classification of these languages into several different
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13 - The Caucasus from Part II - Case Studies for Areal Linguistics
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family, with a total of about 2.5 million speakers. Includes the
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family, with a total of about 4.3 million speakers. Includes the
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Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region
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The Rise and Fall and Revival of the Ibero-Caucasian Hypothesis
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The Iberian-Caucasian Connection in a Typological Perspective
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The myth of the Caucasian Sprachbund: The case of ergativity
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The linguistic and genetic mosaic of the Northwest Caucasus
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Ejectives, Altitude, and the Caucasus as a Linguistic Area
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The autochthonous languages of the Caucasus share some
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Diverse languages between the Black and Caspian seas
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Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian languages
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Ethnolinguistic groups
Caucasian
Caucasus Mountains
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Linguistic comparison
language families
Kartvelian
Georgian
Georgia
Svan
Mingrelian
Laz
Northeast Caucasian
Chechen language
Avar language
Ingush language
Lezgian language
Northwest Caucasian
Kabardian language
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Ubykh
Laz

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