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    Woman's Sign Language, also known as Caucasian Sign Language or Harsneren (Armenian: հարսներէն, "bride's language"), is an indigenous sign language of Armenia...
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  • a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language). Language portal Armenian language Caucasian Sign Language Deafness Languages of Armenia Languages of...
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    Kartvelian languages (/kɑːrtˈvɛliən, -ˈviːl-/ kart-VEL-ee-ən, -⁠VEEL-; Georgian: ქართველური ენები, romanized: kartveluri enebi; also known as South Caucasian or...
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  • Speech-taboo languages Caucasian Sign Language Australian Aboriginal sign languages (though Yolŋu Sign Language does not correspond to any one language, and doubles...
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  • the case with Caucasian Sign Language but not Plains Indian Sign Language, which did not involve speech taboo, or deaf sign languages, which are not...
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    Isolate languages, such as Albanian Sign Language, Armenian Sign Language, Caucasian Sign Language, Spanish Sign Language (LSE), Turkish Sign Language (TİD)...
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    mat͡sʼː], "language of the mountains" or авар мацӏ, avar maⱬ [ʔaˈwar mat͡sʼː], "Avar language"), also known as Avaric, is a Northeast Caucasian language of the...
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  • American language families Ethnolinguistic groups of mainland Southeast Asia Caucasian languages Distribution of the Uralic, Altaic, and Yukaghir languages The...
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    from Greek sources that incorrectly translated the Armenian language. The prefix "Caucasian" is used to avoid confusion with Albania in the Balkans, which...
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    language family. Three small families are spoken in the Caucasus: Kartvelian languages, such as Georgian; Northeast Caucasian (Dagestanian languages)...
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    but often bear striking differences, particularly when adapted for Caucasian languages. The first few of these alphabets were developed by Orthodox missionaries...
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  • Koreanic Mongolic Nivkh Northeast Caucasian Northwest Caucasian Tungusic Turkic Uralic Yeniseian Yukaghir "What Languages Are Spoken in Russia?". WorldAtlas...
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    : Academia. (in Russian) Kassian, A. (2009–2010) Hattic as a Sino-Caucasian language // Ugarit-Forschungen. Internationales Jahrbuch für die Altertumskunde...
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    Chechen and Ingush are still used as languages of everyday communication to a greater degree than their North Caucasian neighbours, but sociolinguistics argue...
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    Northeast Caucasian languages, such as Chechen, are seen by some linguists as more likely candidates for a very distant connection. Dené–Caucasian: based...
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    Sami, as well as Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language and Karelian. Finnish is the language of the majority, 85.7% of the population...
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    Caucasian Kurds are ethnic Kurds who come from or live in the region of the Caucasus. The first Kurdish presence in the Caucasus region can be traced...
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    Archi /ɑːˈtʃiː/ is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Archis in the village of Archib, southern Dagestan, Russia, and the six surrounding smaller...
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    the residents speak one of the Northeast Caucasian, or Turkic languages; however, Russian is the primary language and the lingua franca in the republic....
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    ejective consonants used in these languages. It sees limited use in Latin-script transliterations of Caucasian languages to transliterate the palochka, e...
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    Pan-Caucasianism is a political current supporting the cooperation and integration of some or all peoples of the Caucasus. Pan-Caucasianism has been hindered...
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    explanation mostly applies to sign languages that have developed independently of other spoken or signed languages. Some languages once seen as isolates may...
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  • a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language or language of wider communication (LWC), is a language systematically...
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    existed from 1918 to 1919. It formed as a consolidation of various North Caucasian ethnic groups, including the Abazins, Circassians, Chechens, Karachays...
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    Glottolog list the language families of sign languages. Of sign language families, the Francosign family, hosting around 70 languages, is by far the largest...
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  • has historically been a nominative-accusative language. Sign languages (for example, Nepali Sign Language) should also generally be considered ergative...
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  • respectfully and educated, usually through the use of hieroglyphs and signing gestures. Sign language was first documented in ancient Greece. In one of Plato's dialogues...
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    The Akhvakh language (also spelled Axvax, Akhwakh) is a Northeast Caucasian language from the Avar–Andic branch. Ethnologue lists 210 speakers based on...
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    he calls a "Caucasian substratum" identified by earlier scholars, consisting of loans from the Kartvelian and Northeast Caucasian languages. Noting that...
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  • The Azerbaijani manat sign (₼, image: ; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan manatı; code: AZN) is the currency sign of the Azerbaijani manat. In Unicode, it is encoded...
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