Maximilian Hartmuth wrote:
>
> Dear Members,
>
> Maybe some of you could answer me a question. I`ve been wondering on the
> different classification schemes for "caucasian languages", so maybe you
> could tell me why you find one system more appropriate than the other, or
> what is the newest level of research, or which classifications are
> anachronistic.
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Hi Maximillian,
According to Valery Alekseev there is no such thing as a Caucasian
languge family because the evidence doesn't substantiate one. And
according to Sergei Arutiunov, Americans should abandon as utterly
incorrect, politically and scientifically, a usage of Caucasian as
designating the "white" or Europoid race. Caucasians are either native
inhabitants of the Caucasus area (including Armenians, Azeris, Ossetians
and other Turkic and Indo European speakers) or linguistically, the
people who speak Caucasian languges to include Georgians, Kartwelic,
Abkhazo-Adyghean and Nakh-Daghestanic.
Language families in the Caucasus:
A. Kartic=Kartvelian Family
1. Geogian
2. Megrelian
3. Svanian
B. Abkhazo-Adigian Family
1. Abazian and Abkhazian
2. Ubykhian
3. Adygian
C. Nakhs Family
1. Chechenian
2. Ingushian
3. Batsbian
D. Dagestan Family
(there are 29 languages)
E. Indo-European Family
1. Iranian sub-family
a. Ossets
F. Turkic Family
1. Kypchak sub-family
a. Balkarian
b. Karachaian
c. Kumik
d. Nogai
2. Oguz sub-family
a. Azerbaijani
Hope this helps to answer you question. This should be listed below in
my signature file: Chapter VII: Bronze Age in Eurasia: lecture 9. My
webmaster has assured me that Chapter 9 will be posted this evening.
Sincerely,
Gerry
Gerry
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