Northeast Caucasian languages

The Northeast Caucasian languages ​​(also nachisch - Dagestani languages ​​) are a language family whose members mainly in the autonomous republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan (Russian Federation ) and in small numbers in Azerbaijan and Georgia are spoken. About four million people speak a language of that family. The Northeast Caucasian languages ​​are part of the complex language of the Caucasian languages.

Mark

The languages ​​are identified by a plurality of phones (up to 60 consonants and 30 vowels in some languages ​​), a plurality of rows of plosives and by a plurality of cases (case ), including the ergative the absolutive and numerous locatives.

System

The Northeast Caucasian languages ​​can be divided into four groups:

• Ando - Awaro - Didoische languages Andean languages
• Avar language
• Didoische languages

• Lakisch - Dargin languages Lakische language
• Dargin language

• Lesgische languages Lesgische language
• Tabassaranische language
• And 8 other small languages

• Nachische languages Chechen language
• Ingush language
• Batsische language

Relationship to other languages

The Northeast Caucasian languages ​​are sometimes grouped with the Northwest Caucasian languages ​​to a North Caucasian language family. A linguistic relationship between these two families, however, could not yet be detected.

Is also believed that the Hurrian and Urartian, the two languages ​​that were spoken in Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC, belong to the Northeast Caucasian languages ​​.