Northwest Caucasian, also called Abkhaz-Adyghe, is a small family of languages indigenous to the western Caucasus region, including Abkhaz, Adyghe and Kabardian. Its languages are notable among the world's languages for combining very large consonant inventories with only two or three vowels.
Facts
RegionThe northwestern Caucasus, chiefly Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia in Russia, plus Abkhazia, Georgia and Turkey 1 Proto-Language StatusReconstructed as Proto-Northwest Caucasian, also called Proto-West Caucasian or Proto-Abkhaz-Adyghe 2 Connections
Ancestor Of
Circassian (Adyghe and Kabardian) is a branch of the Northwest Caucasian family.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Northwest Caucasian Languages
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a family of languages spoken in the northwestern Caucasus region, chiefly in three Russian republics (Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia), the disputed territory of Abkhazia, Georgia, and Turkey, with smaller communities scattered throughout the Middle East.
2. Wikipedia: Proto-Northwest Caucasian Language
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Proto-Northwest Caucasian (sometimes abbreviated PNWC), also called Proto-West Caucasian (PWC) or Proto-Abkhaz-Adyghe, is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Northwest Caucasian languages.
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