The 'Caucasian' languages aren't a legitimate language family (i.e. aren't of the same linguistic stock); they're simply geographical neighbours that happen to share a large number of features (probably) due to areal diffusion.
It is also funny to read things like this: "Chechens, Tajiks and other people who originate from the Caucasus". Tajiks are from Central Asia, I wonder how they are even being confused with Caucasus
The 'Caucasian' languages aren't a legitimate language family (i.e. aren't of the same linguistic stock); they're simply geographical neighbours that happen to share a large number of features (probably) due to areal diffusion.
I mean, I am actually from that 'hood originally The Caucasian languages fall into three typologically well-defined language families: the Northwest Caucasian, or Abkhazo-Adyghian, languages; the Northeast Caucasian, or Nakho-Dagestanian, languages; and the South Caucasian, or Kartvelian, languages (also called Iberian).
Proto-Kartvelians might be related linguistically and culturally to the indigenous (pre-Indo-European) peoples of ancient Europe including the Pelasgians, Etruscans and Proto-Basques.
I mean, I am actually from that 'hood originally The Caucasian languages fall into three typologically well-defined language families: the Northwest Caucasian, or Abkhazo-Adyghian, languages; the Northeast Caucasian, or Nakho-Dagestanian, languages; and the South Caucasian, or Kartvelian, languages (also called Iberian).
Proto-Kartvelians might be related linguistically and culturally to the indigenous (pre-Indo-European) peoples of ancient Europe including the Pelasgians, Etruscans and Proto-Basques.
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The Caucasian languages fall into three typologically well-defined language families: the Northwest Caucasian, or Abkhazo-Adyghian, languages; the Northeast Caucasian, or Nakho-Dagestanian, languages; and the South Caucasian, or Kartvelian, languages (also called Iberian).
