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    The Northwest Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages, is a family...
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    the Caspian Sea, in contrast to Pontic languages for the Northwest Caucasian languages), is a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan...
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  • Proto-Adyghe-Abkhaz, is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Northwest Caucasian languages. In Circassian and Abkhaz, gʷǝ is heart and in Ubykh it's gʲǝ...
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    The Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains...
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  • Chakobsa is a Northwest Caucasian language, possibly in the Circassian subgroup. According to linguist John Colarusso, Chakobsa is also known as shikwoshir...
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    The North Caucasian languages, sometimes called simply Caucasic, is a proposed language family consisting of a pair of well established language families...
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    is a subdivision of the Northwest Caucasian language family, spoken by the Circassian people. There are two Circassian languages, defined by their literary...
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  • identified in 2015 Northwest Caucasian languages Northeast Caucasian languages South Caucasian languages Dené–Caucasian languages Certain types of animals:...
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    Kartvelian languages (/kɑːrtˈvɛliən, -ˈviːl-/ kart-VEL-ee-ən, -⁠VEEL-; Georgian: ქართველური ენები, romanized: kartveluri enebi; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic...
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    is a Northwest Caucasian language most closely related to Abaza. It is spoken mostly by the Abkhaz people. It is one of the official languages of Abkhazia...
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  • namely Ibero-Caucasian South Caucasian, also called Kartvelian. Northwest Caucasian, also called Abkhazo-Adyghean. Northeast Caucasian, also called Nakh–Dagestanian...
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    Ubykh or Päkhy is an extinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people, a subgroup of Circassians who originally inhabited the eastern...
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  • Preverb (category Articles containing Ojibwe-language text)
    linguistics, the term preverb is used in Caucasian (including all three families: Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian and Kartvelian), Caddoan, Athabaskan...
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  • abaza byzshwa; Adyghe: абазэбзэ) is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by Abazins in Russia. The language has gone through several different orthographies...
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    Northeast Caucasian peoples and Northwest Caucasian peoples. Kartvelian languages Georgians Dvals Ingiloys Zans Lazs Mingrelians Svans Northeast Caucasian languages...
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  • Vyacheslav V. (1985). "On the Relationship of Hattic to the Northwest Caucasian languages," in B.B. Piotrovskij, Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, and Vladislav G...
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    Abazgi is the branch of the Northwest Caucasian languages that contains the Abaza and Abkhaz languages. "Abazgi" was once the preferred designation, but...
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    Siberian Turkic Living Northwest Caucasian languages are generally written using Cyrillic alphabets. Abaza is a Caucasian language, spoken by Abazins in...
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    addition, the Adyghe language is spoken by the Cherkesogai in Krasnodar Krai. Adyghe belongs to the family of Northwest Caucasian languages. Kabardian (also...
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    states from: Turkic people Uralic people Mongolic people Tungusic people Caucasian people Nations: Asia (6):  Kazakhstan,  Uzbekistan,  Kyrgyzstan,  Turkmenistan...
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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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  • known as East Circassian, is a Northwest Caucasian language closely related to the Adyghe (West Circassian) language. Circassian nationalists reject...
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    The Nakh languages are a group of languages within Northeast Caucasian family, spoken chiefly by the Chechens and Ingush in the North Caucasus. Bats is...
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    Zygii (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    language, perhaps the earliest reference to the Northwest Caucasian languages. Researchers assume that the Zygii spoke a Northwest Caucasian language...
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  • Pontic is a proposed language family or macrofamily, comprising the Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian language families, with Proto-Pontic being its...
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    The Caucasian Imamate, also known as the North Caucasus Imamate (Arabic: إمامة شمال القوقاز, romanized: Imāmat Shamal al Qawqāz), was a state established...
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    Voiced uvular plosive (category Articles containing Sudanese Arabic-language text)
    Inuit; several Turkic languages such as Uyghur and Yakut; several Northwest Caucasian languages such as Abkhaz; several Mongolic languages such as Mongolian...
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  • Kaskian language may have been an Indo-European language, perhaps related to Thraco-Phrygian. There may also be connections to the Northwest Caucasian languages;...
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  • Alveolar lateral ejective fricative (category Articles containing Adyghe-language text)
    type of consonantal sound, reported in the Northwest Caucasian languages and in Modern South Arabian languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...
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    Maykop culture (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
    the Maykop culture people probably spoke languages which are ancestral to the Northwest Caucasian languages found in the same region today. Nonetheless...
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