Caucasian language

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Caucasian language - a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere

Caucasian

natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Chechen - a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Chechen

Circassian - a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian

Georgian - a southern Caucasian language with 3 million speakers and a long literary tradition

Ubykh - an extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey

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Caucasian languages do not currently have a dedicated conference series, or a journal that meets the international standards of serving as a forum for the exchange of ideas among linguists working on this linguistic area, or on a Caucasian language family.

Introduction to the special issue on Caucasian languages

Georgia's peculiar Caucasian language has a writing system all its own and literature stretching back many centuries.

Fanning the flames in Georgia: an American defense of Georgia could risk nuclear war, yet the Bush administration seems determined to turn this brush fire into a Cuban Missile Crisis-like stare-down

Talking about that momentous landing on Plymouth Rock, Bingham says: "If those Mayflower settlers had chanced to speak Ubykh (a Caucasian language with 81 consonants and three vowels) or Rotokas (a Papua New Guinea language with just six consonants and three vowels), the world would most likely be speaking those fine languages today."

My word! What a complex language

The word, of uncertain origin (for details on the etymology, see below), is found in every North Caucasian language, which testifies to the centrality of this practice to the social life of the mountaineers in the past.

Transgressive sanctity: the abrek in Chechen culture

Followed in the category of accept response are the non-English Caucasian languages such as German (Golato, 2002) and Spanish (Lorenzo-Dus, 2001).

Chinese International Students' Adaptive Orientations to Intercultural Compliment Interactions with Caucasian Americans

In fact, ergativity had only achieved recognition some fourteen years earlier, following the publication of Adolf Dirr's review of the Caucasian languages Einfuring in das Studium de kaukasichen Sprachen (1928).

"Orc Talk": Soviet Linguistics in Middle-Earth

Among the first-tier categories are general linguistics and related disciplines, inter-relationships between language families, Caucasian languages, and sign languages.

Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2017 and Supplement for Previous Years

An ideal supplement to the catalogue is a chapter "Short biographies of collectors" as some of them are hardly known today, like Adolf Dirr (1867-1930), a major expert on Caucasian languages, who earned his living as a teacher in the Caucasus and later worked as an interpreter and staff member of the Munich Ethnological Museum, and Marie Du Bois-Reymond (1864-?), wife of Claude du Bois-Reymond, professor at the German Medical School in Shanghai.

Die Wachszylinder des Berliner Phonogramm-Archivs

I tree-OBL-FOOT is.lying 'I am lying at the foot of a tree.' It is common to East Caucasian languages that one of the localization markers expresses location in a space associated with a person.