Caucasian Families

The Caucasus is home to three language families with no demonstrated relationship to each other or to any language family outside the region: Kartvelian, Georgian and its relatives, Northwest Caucasian, Abkhaz, Circassian and their relatives, and Northeast Caucasian, also called Nakh-Dagestanian, Chechen, Avar, the Dargin and Lezgic languages and dozens of smaller languages of Dagestan. This group holds every Eurasian Language Families member whose sourced description places it in one of these three families or in a named branch of Northeast Caucasian, Avar-Andic, Tsezic, Lezgic, Dargin and the rest, together with the disputed Alarodian and Hurro-Urartian proposals that would connect Northeast Caucasian to the extinct languages of ancient Anatolia.