North Caucasian languages

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indigenous languages of the North Caucasus proposed language family

The North Caucasian languages are a proposed family of indigenous languages spoken in the North Caucasus region, noted for their complex consonant systems and debated genetic relationships to other language groups.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	indigenous languages of the North Caucasus ⓘ proposed language family ⓘ
alternativeName	North Caucasian hypothesis NERFINISHED ⓘ North Caucasic languages ⓘ
characterizedBy	complex consonant systems ⓘ complex verbal morphology ⓘ ergative alignment in many member languages ⓘ extensive use of secondary articulations ⓘ relatively small vowel inventories ⓘ rich case systems in many member languages ⓘ rich consonant inventories ⓘ
distinctFrom	Indo-European languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Kartvelian languages ⓘ South Caucasian languages ⓘ Turkic languages ⓘ
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers	several million speakers ⓘ
hasFeature	complex consonant clusters ⓘ numerous fricatives and affricates ⓘ phonemic ejective consonants in many languages ⓘ polypersonal agreement in many verbs ⓘ
hasStatus	controversial genetic grouping ⓘ not universally accepted by linguists ⓘ
hasSubgroup	Abkhaz–Abaza languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Avar–Andic languages ⓘ Circassian languages ⓘ Dargic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Khinalug language NERFINISHED ⓘ Lak language NERFINISHED ⓘ Lezgic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Nakh languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Northeast Caucasian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Caucasian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Tsezic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Ubykh language NERFINISHED ⓘ
proposedBy	Sergei A. Starostin NERFINISHED ⓘ various historical linguists ⓘ
relatedTo	Northeast Caucasian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Caucasian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenBy	peoples of the North Caucasus ⓘ
spokenIn	Azerbaijan NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ North Caucasus NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ
subjectOf	comparative-historical research ⓘ debates on long-range linguistic classification ⓘ
usedIn	local education in some regions ⓘ oral tradition of North Caucasian peoples ⓘ regional media in the North Caucasus ⓘ

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