Caucasian Languages
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, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Linguistic comparison allows the classification of these languages into several different language families, with little or no discernible affinity to each other. However, the languages of the Caucasus are sometimes mistakenly referred to as a family 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 …
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 1992 English
The morphology of the language is highly complex, especially in the case of the verb. [...] Elsewhere only Basque in the Pyrenees and the languages of the Caucasus survive as …
George was the editor for a volume, Northwest Caucasian Languages (Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1989), … Importance The full significance of the Caucasian languages for the linguistic history of western Eurasia …
