1st Edition
The Northwest Caucasian Languages A Phonological Survey
By John Colarusso
Copyright 1988
520 Pages
by
Routledge
520 Pages
by
Routledge
520 Pages
by
Routledge
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Perhaps more than any other group of languages those of the Caucasus are famous for their enormous and difficult consonantal systems. It is by no means exceptional for one of these languages to have as many as 50 consonants, and of these languages those from the Northwest Caucasus have the largest and most complex consonantal systems. The extensive use of the articulatory regions of the mouth... Read more
1. The Northwest Caucasian Language Family 2. The West Circassian or ‘Kyakh’ Languages 3. The East Circassian Languages 4. Ubykh 5. Abkhaz 6. Abaza 7. The Palatalized and Pharyngealized Uvulars 8. The Vowels. Appendix: The Phonological Systems of the Northwest Caucasian Languages and Dialects
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John Colarusso
