The Caucasian Languages of The Caucasus Mountains

This video is all about the indigenous languages of the Caucasus region, including the Kartvelian, Northeast Caucasian, and Northwest Caucasian language families.

Special thanks to the following people for their language samples and feedback: David Gagnidze (Georgian); Sana Patuash, Apsha Rustam, and Asa Nash (Adyghe/Circassian).

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Major sources used:

Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus edited by Galina M. Yemelianova, Laurence Broers

Atlas of the World's Languages edited by R.E. Asher, Christopher Moseley.

Segmental Phonetics and Phonology by Gašper Beguš. The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus, edited by Maria Polinsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics. edited by Pieter Muysken p 43.

The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide
edited by Bernd Kortmann, Johan van der Auwera

The Verbal Syntax and Ergativity of Georgian – nthuleen.com

Circassian consonant chart from the Wikipedia article on Adyghe phonology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyghe_phonology. Creative Commons Sharealike license.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg Author: Pmx, based on CIA public domain map.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caucasic_languages.svg Author: Kwami.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caucasus_topographic_map-en.svg Author: Bouricchon

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kartvelian_languages.svg Author: ArnoldPlaton

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northeast_Caucasus_languages_map_en.svg Author: Don-kun, Furfur, User:Pmx

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euskalkiak.svg Authors: Goran tek-en, Willtron

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