Northeast Caucasian languages

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Main distribution areas of the Northeast Caucasian languages.

The Northeast Caucasian languages (including post-Dagestani languages ) are a family of languages ​​whose sub-languages ​​are mainly spoken in the autonomous republics of Chechnya , Ingushetia , Dagestan ( Russian Federation ) and, to a lesser extent, in Azerbaijan and Georgia . Over four million people speak a language in this family. The Northeast Caucasian languages ​​are part of the language complex of the Caucasian languages .

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The languages ​​are characterized by a multitude of sounds (up to 60 consonants and 30 vowels in some languages), several series of plosives and a multitude of cases , including the ergative , the absolutive and numerous locatives .

Systematics

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

Relationship to other languages

The Northeast Caucasian languages ​​are sometimes combined with the Northwest Caucasian languages to form a North Caucasian language family . A linguistic relationship between these two families has not yet been proven.

It is also assumed that Hurrian and Urartian , two languages ​​that existed from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC. Were spoken in Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia , are related to the Northeast Caucasian languages.

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