Group details

NORTH-WEST CAUCASIAN Links (4)   Books (13)   
Alternative name: ABKHAZO-ADYGHIAN
Number of languages: 5
Group path: NORTH-WEST CAUCASIAN
Branches: ABKHAZ-ABAZIN, CIRCASSIAN, UBYKH
Description:

The Northwest Caucasian languages comprise five languages: Abkhaz, Abaza, Adyghe, Kabardian, and the extinct language Ubykh. Within the language family Abkhaz and Abaza form the Abkhaz-Abazin subgroup, Adyghe and Kabardian constitute the Circassian... [more ...]


Links
1   An Overview of Languages of the Caucasus
http://popgen.well.ox.ac.uk/eurasia/htdocs/nichols/nichols.html
2   Consonant Systems of the North-West Caucasian Languages
http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/caucasus/nwkklaut.htm
3   Database Query to Abkhaz-Adyghe Etymology
http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/startq.cgi?flags=eygtnnl&basename=%5Cdata%5Ccauc%5Cabadet
4   George Dumezil
http://www.georgesdumezil.org/

Books
1   Chirikba, V. A.: Sistema svistiashche-shipiashchix soglasnyx v abxazo-adygskix jazykax [The System of Hissing-hushing Consonants in the Abkhazo-Adyghean Languages]
2   Chirikba, Viacheslav: Common West Caucasian. The reconstruction of its phonological system and parts of its Lexicon and Morphology
3   Colarusso, John: Myths from the Caucasus: the Nart Sagas of the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs
4   Colarusso, John: The northwest Caucasian languages : a phonological survey
5   Dirr, A.: Einf��hrung in das Studium der Kaukasischen Sprachen
6   Dum��zil, Georges: Etudes comparatives sur les langues Caucasiennes du Nord-Ouest (Morphologie)
7   Dum��zil, Georges: Introduction a la Grammaire comparee des langues Caucasiennes du Nord
8   Eckert, R.: Die Sprachen des kaukasischen Stammes
9   Hewitt, George (ed.): The Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus, Volume 2: The North West Caucasian Languages
10   Klimov, Georgij A.: Einf��hrung in die kaukasische Sprachwissenschaft
11   Van den Berg, H. (ed.): Studies in Caucasian Linguistics. Selected Papers of the Eighth Caucasian Colloquium
12   Vogt, Hans: De kaukasiske spr��k og spr��kvitenskapen (The Caucasian languages and linguistics)
13   Wixman, Ronald: Language Aspects of Ethnic Patterns and Processes in the North Caucasus

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