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Caucasian language

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Noun1.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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Among the topics are the interface between researchers and the native people as exemplified in the Trumai case, linguistic parameters of language endangerment in endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia, and a preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation.
Lessons from documented endangered languages by Reference & Research Book News
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 ... by Scaliger, Charles / The New American
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 by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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