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Northeast Caucasian
East Caucasian
Nakh-Daghestanian
North Caspian
Caspian
Geographic
distribution
Caucasus
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Proto-languageProto-Northeast Caucasian
Subdivisions
  • Avar–Andic
  • Dargic
  • Khinalug
  • Lak
  • Lezgic
  • Nakh
  • Tsezic (Didoic)
Glottolognakh1245
  Avar–Andic
  Dargic
  Khinalug
  Lak
  Lezgic
  Nakh
  Tsezic
Main areas of Northeast Caucasian languages

The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestani or Vainakh-Daghestani, or sometimes Caspian languages (from the Caspian Sea, in contrast to Pontic languages for the Northwest Caucasian languages), is a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia and in Northern Azerbaijan as well as in Georgia and diaspora populations in Western Europe and the Middle East. According to Glottolog, there are currently 36 Nakh-Dagestanian languages.

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Nakh languages

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The Nakh languages are a group of languages within Northeast Caucasian family, spoken chiefly by the Chechens and Ingush in the North Caucasus. Bats is...

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Northwest Caucasian languages

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Northwest Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages, is a family...

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Caucasian Albanian language

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Caucasian Albanian (also called Old Udi, Aluan or Aghwan) is an extinct member of the Northeast Caucasian languages. It was spoken in Caucasian Albania...

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Lezgic languages

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The Lezgic languages are one of seven branches of the Northeast Caucasian language family. Lezgin and Tabasaran are literary languages. Peripheral: Archi...

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Alarodian languages

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The Alarodian languages are a proposed language family that encompasses the Northeast Caucasian (Nakh–Dagestanian) languages and the extinct Hurro-Urartian...

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Tyrsenian languages

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suggested a link between the Tyrrhenian languages and the Northeast Caucasian languages in an Alarodian language family, based on claimed sound correspondences...

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Caucasian

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Ingush language

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Гӏалгӏай мотт, Ghalghai mott, pronounced [ˈʁəlʁɑj mot]) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 500,000 people, known as the Ingush, across a...

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Kartvelian languages

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Kartvelian languages (/kɑːrtˈvɛliən, -ˈviːl-/ kart-VEL-ee-ən, -⁠VEEL-; Georgian: ქართველური ენები, romanized: kartveluri enebi; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic...

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Lezgian language

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Lezgin, also called Lezgi /ˈlɛzɡiːn/, is a Northeast Caucasian language. It is spoken by the Lezgins, who live in southern Dagestan (Russia); northern...

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Andic languages

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The Andic languages are a branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. They are often grouped together with the Avar language and (formerly) with...

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Vainakh languages

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the Northeast Caucasian languages family. Languages of the Caucasus Northeast Caucasian languages Zur Sprachgeschichte des Kaukasus (On the language history...

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Dargin languages

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The Dargin languages consist of a dialect continuum of Northeast Caucasian languages spoken by the Dargin people in southcentral Dagestan. Kajtak, Kubachi...

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Avar language

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mat͡sʼ], "language of the mountains" or авар мацӏ, awar macʼ [awar mat͡sʼ], "Avar language"), also known as Avaric, is a Northeast Caucasian language of the...

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Bats language

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endangered language of the Bats people, a North Caucasian minority group. It is part of the Nakh family of Northeast Caucasian languages. It had 2,500...

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Cyrillic alphabets

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Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia. Northeast Caucasian languages are generally written using Cyrillic alphabets. Avar is a Caucasian language, spoken in the Republic...

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Khinalug language

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the Northeast Caucasian language family. Khinalug is endangered, and classified as "severely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in...

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Lak language

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(лакку маз, [lakːu maz] ) is a Northeast Caucasian language forming its own branch within this family. It is the language of the Lak people from the Russian...

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Aghul language

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Aghul is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Aghuls in southern Dagestan, Russia and in Azerbaijan. It is spoken by about 29,300 people (2010...

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Aorist

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languages and languages influenced by the Indo-European grammatical tradition, such as Middle Persian, Sanskrit, Armenian, the South Slavic languages...

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Tsakhur language

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World's Languages in Danger. Tsakhur belongs to the Lezgic group of the Northeast Caucasian language family. The Tsakhurs call their language C'a'χna...

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Ethnic groups in the Caucasus

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