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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A family of languages of the Caucasus Mountains, including Abkhaz, known for their complex systems of consonants and small number of vowels.
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Nikolayev and Starostin 1994 offer many putative cognate sets and reconstructions for Nakh-Daghestanian and its branches, as part of a reconstruction of a putative North Caucasian comprising Northwest Caucasian and Nakh-Daghestanian.
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I suspect that this was an innovation spurred on by contact with an ancestral form of Proto-Abkhaz-Adyghe aka Northwest Caucasian.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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I suspect that this was an innovation spurred on by contact with an ancestral form of Proto-Abkhaz-Adyghe aka Northwest Caucasian.
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Nikolayev and Starostin 1994 assume that Nakh-Daghestanian and Northwest Caucasian form a family and offer reconstructions for that putative family, again assembling putative cognate sets so as to maximize matches and similarities between ND and NWC.
The Tower of Babel 2007
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