• Proto-Circassian (or Proto-Adyghe–Kabardian) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Adyghean and Kabardian languages. The consonant system is reconstructed...
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  • Proto-Abazgi language. Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Northwest Caucasian reconstructions Proto-Circassian language Proto-Abazgi...
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    Northwest Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages (from Ancient Greek...
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  • Proto-Chadic Proto-Omotic Proto-Niger–Congo Proto-Bantu Proto-Yoruboid Proto-Basque Proto-Northwest Caucasian Proto-Abazgi Proto-Circassian Proto-Northeast...
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    the Northwest Caucasian language family, spoken by the Circassian people. There are two main variants of the Circassian language, defined by their literary...
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    Circassians in diaspora in over 50 countries. The two Circassian languages—western Adyghe and eastern Kabardian—are natively spoken by the Circassian...
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  • Abkhaz languages. Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Northwest Caucasian reconstructions Proto-Circassian language Proto-Northwest...
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    /ˌɑːdɪˈɡeɪ/; also known as West Circassian) is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by the western subgroups of Circassians. It is spoken mainly in Russia...
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    Ubykh is an extinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people, an ethnic group of Circassian nation who originally inhabited the eastern...
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    and Caucasian languages (such as Circassian, Abkhaz, Nakh-Dagestanian languages etc) now surrounded by Russian. Many creole languages have also arisen...
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    Northwest Caucasian (Circassian) family and the extinct Hattic language of central Anatolia. See the article on Northwest Caucasian languages for details. Alarodian...
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    Indo-European languages, based on the assumption that parts of the Proto-Indo-Europeans' original belief systems survived in the daughter traditions. The Proto-Indo-European...
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    of the Northwest Caucasian family (also called Pontic, Abkhaz–Adyghe, Circassian, or West Caucasian) and the Northeast Caucasian family (also called Nakh–Dagestanian...
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  • similar time in the Bronze Age, potentially as a proto-version of the later Circassian and Abkhaz language. The Cimmerians a nomadic Indo-European people...
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  • Turkic languages such as Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Uyghur, and Kazakh, as well as languages of the Caucasus such as Western and Eastern Circassian languages and...
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    Iranian Assyrians, Iranian Jews, Iranian Armenians, Iranian Georgians, Circassians and Mandaeans. In addition to its ethnic diversity, Iranian society is...
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  • diaspora outside Republic of Adygea alongside Shapsugs. Historically, Proto-Circassian had 6 distinct consonants: d͡ʒ ⟨дж⟩ t͡ʃ ⟨ч⟩ t͡ʃʼ ⟨кӏ⟩ ɡʲ ⟨гь⟩ kʲ ⟨кь⟩...
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  • that the Proto-Indo-Europeans were similarly divided into three castes—warriors, priests, and commoners. The Northwest Caucasian (Circassian, Abkhaz-Abasin...
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    non-Pama-Nyungan languages, that a Proto-Australian could be reconstructed from which all known Australian languages descend. This Proto-Australian language, they...
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    The Proto-Elamite script is an early Bronze Age writing system briefly in use before the introduction of Elamite cuneiform. There are many similarities...
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    are possible indications that proto-Northwest Caucasian, could have divided firstly into proto-Circassian and to proto-Ubykh-Abkhaz; Ubykh then being...
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    phylum would also include three extinct languages: Hattic, connected by some linguists to the Northwest (Circassian) family, and Hurrian and Urartian, connected...
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  • a list of lists of languages. SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International Organization...
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  • specifically used SOV order, but Circassian allows any order. In contrast, Japanese is a nominative–accusative language: In this language, the argument of the intransitive...
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    Digor people (category Articles with Russian-language sources (ru))
    dig- with the Circassian endonym A-dyg-e, where the suffix -or could be a mark of plurality as found in many contemporary Caucasian languages. This point...
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    The Proto-Elamite period, also known as Susa III, is a chronological era in the ancient history of the area of Elam, dating from c. 3100 BC to 2700 BC...
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    Caucasus (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Colarusso, pp. 158–168 (Circassian Saga 34: How Pataraz Freed Bearded Nasran, Who Was Chained to the High Mountain), 168–169 (Circassian Saga 35: Bound Nasran);...
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    Elam (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    the Elamites were ‘Proto-Lurs’ — that is, ancestors of the inhabitants of modern-day Lurestan in western Iran. The Elamite language endonym of Elam as...
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    Avars (Caucasus) (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
    According to reconstructions, this word descends from *ʔωar in the proto-Avarian language ("ʔ" represents a glottal stop). In modern Avarian, three words...
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    Sarmatians (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    civilization. Others assimilated with the proto-Circassian Meot people, and may have influenced the Circassian language. Some Sarmatians were absorbed by the...
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