{"id":4918,"date":"2009-11-09T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T10:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?page_id=4918"},"modified":"2018-04-25T17:10:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:10:44","slug":"northwest-caucasian-language-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/northwest-caucasian-language-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Caucasian Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Information about the Northwest Caucasian (or Abkhazo-Adyghean) languages<\/h4>\n

Where are the Northwest Caucasian languages spoken?<\/h5>\n

These languages are spoken in Russia (in the autonomous republics of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygea), in Georgia (in the autonomous republic of Abkhazia), and in Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and northern Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

Total number of speakers (estimated):<\/h5>\n

Approximately 1 050 000 according to UNESCO<\/p>\n

Approximately 1 650 000 according to the site ethnologue.com (SIL)<\/p>\n

Classification<\/h5>\n

The Northwest Caucasian language family has 4 languages, and many variants.<\/p>\n

Circassian Group<\/p>\n

Adyghe<\/strong>: 300 000 speakers according to UNESCO and 500 000 according to SIL<\/p>\n

Kabardian<\/strong>: 650 000 speakers according to UNESCO and 1 000 000 according to SIL<\/p>\n

Ubykh<\/strong>: extinct<\/p>\n

Abkhaz-Abaza Group<\/p>\n

Abkhazian<\/strong>: 125 000 speakers according to UNESCO and 45 000 according to SIL<\/p>\n

Abaza<\/strong>: 31 000 speakers according to UNESCO and 110 000 according to SIL<\/p>\n

Comments on the classification of Northwest Caucasian languages:<\/h5>\n

These languages have long been considered to be part of the “Caucasian” languages family. This hypothetical family consisted of three main branches: the Northeast Caucasian languages, the Northwest Caucasian languages and South Caucasian languages. The validity of this larger family is not, however, widely accepted today by linguists. At best, if the term “Caucasian Languages” is sometimes still used, it is a geographical rather than a linguistic reference. Starostin proposed the consolidation of the two northern families, but this grouping is still controversial. As a result, all three families are presented separately here.<\/p>\n

Each of the two groups in this family is actually a collection of dialects which are geographically widely dispersed.<\/p>\n

Are Northwest Caucasian languages in danger?<\/h5>\n

According to UNESCO all of these languages are endangered with Abaza <\/strong>being probably the most threatened. Ubykh <\/strong>is extinct.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/h5>\n

Hewitt, George: Introduction to the Study of the languages of the Caucasus<\/em>. LINCOM EUROPA, M\u00fcnchen 2004.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/armazi.uni-frankfurt.de\/armaziII\/enebi.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de\/ecling\/ecling.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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