Diverse languages between the Black and Caspian seas
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Ethnolinguistic groups in the Caucasus region (1995)
The Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Linguistic comparison allows the classification of these languages into several different language families, with little or no discernible affinity to each other. However, the languages of the Caucasus are sometimes mistakenly referred to as a family of languages. According to Asya Pereltsvaig, "grammatical differences between the three groups of languages are considerable. [...] These differences force the more conservative historical linguistics to treat the three language families of the Caucasus as unrelated."[1]
^Asya Pereltsvaig, Languages of the World - An Introduction, 2012, Cambridge University Press, p. 64.
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