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Caucasian

Caucasian languages are a group of about forty languages native to the Caucasus region. Spoken in the Northern Caucasia, Transcaucasia and Turkey. Small groups of speakers of Caucasian languages also live in Syria, Iran and other countries of the Near East. Among the Caucasian languages, only Georgian has ancient literary traditions. Udin has apparently also been a written language in the past. Beginning from the late Middle Ages there were attempts to use the Arab script for writing in a number of Caucasian languages. After the revolution, literary languages were created for Abaza, Adyghe, Avar, Chechen, Dargi, Ingush, Kabardin (Circassian), Lak, Lezghian, and Tabasaran--first on the basis of the Arab and Latin, from the late 1930's, Russian script. During the last years attempts have been made to create writing systems for Aghul, Andi, Bezhta, Dido, Rutul and Tsakhur. Source

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Abkhaz

Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Abkhazia and Turkey. Abkhaz has about 100,000 speakers in Abkhazia with up to 500,000 more living in Turkey.

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Chechen

Information on the Chechen language.

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Georgian

The Georgian language is spoken primarily in the Republic of Georgia by appr. five million people. It belongs to the Kartvelian, or South Caucasian, language family, together with Svan and Mingrelian that are also spoken in Georgia. It is written in its own alphabet, Mkhedruli, which was probably derived from the Greek alphabet.

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