From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 20855
Date: 2003-04-07
>Correct me if I'm wrong; I believe there are now three "Caucasian"I don't think so.
>language groups: NW Caucasian, NE Caucasian and Kartvelian (of which
>Georgian is a member). Kartvelian languages used to be spoken much
>further north, along the Black Sea coast, I seem to recall
>(and it has the 'dan' "water" word).The Georgian-Zan word for water is given by Klimov as *c.q.a- (it
>The thing that worry me most is theYou still need a lot of interpreters. Besides the 40 or so
>ancient reports of Greeks (?) needing one hundred interpreters to
>travel in the Caucasus; several languages (the last one was Ubykh)
>and whole language groups might have died out without a trace.