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4 unusual facts about Northwest Caucasian languages


Abkhaz language

Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language, and is therefore related to Adyghe.

NART TV

NART TV (National Adighe Radio and Television) is a Circassian television channel broadcast from Iran.

Nordwestblock

He assumes the pre-existence of pre-Indo-European languages linked to the archeological Linear Pottery culture and to a family of languages featuring complex verbs, of which the Northwest Caucasian languages might have been the sole survivors.

Northwest Caucasian languages

With eighty-one consonants, Ubykh has one of the largest inventories in the world, and probably the largest outside the Khoisan languages.


Archi language

Of the languages without click consonants, Archi has one of the largest consonant inventories, with the recently extinct Ubykh of the Northwest Caucasian languages having a few more.

Fortis and lenis

Many North Caucasian languages (Northwest and especially Northeast) have a consonantal distinction described as "strong" or "preruptive" that has concomitant length.

Peoples of the Caucasus

Peoples of the Caucasus who speak languages which have long been indigenous to the region are generally classified into three groups: Kartvelian peoples, Northeast Caucasian peoples and Northwest Caucasian peoples.


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