Languages of the Caucasus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23675128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Hewitt (0000-0002-7330-4107, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah12041 |
| OpenAlex | W1483199811 |
| ISBN | 9781444338386 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The Caucasian isthmus, lying between the Black and Caspian seas at the interface of Europe and Asia, is one of the Earth's richest ethno‐linguistic regions. Some of the currently spoken languages arrived when outsiders immigrated during recorded history. But the majority, the indigenous languages of the Caucasus, belong to descendants of peoples the date of whose arrival is simply unknown – hence the name. Depending on one's analysis, the autochthonous languages divide into two or three families: South Caucasian (Kartvelian) and either North Caucasian or Northwest Caucasian and Nakh‐Daghestanian, the northern languages being completely unrelated to Kartvelian.
Ancient history · Biology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · Language contact · Languages of Asia · Linguistics · South asia · Ecology · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |