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Circassian (/ s ɜːr ˈ k æ ʃ ən / sur-KASH-ən), also known as Cherkess (/ tʃ ɜːr ˈ k ɛ s / chur-KESS), is a subdivision of the Northwest Caucasian language family, spoken by the Circassian people.
Ethnolinguistic groups in the Caucasus region (1995). The Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Caucasus vegetation land cover, 1940 View of the Caucasus Mountains in Dagestan, Russia. The Caucasus is an area of great ecological importance. The region is included in the list of 34 world biodiversity hotspots. [66] [67] It harbors some 6400 species of higher plants, 1600 of which are endemic to the region. [68]
Caucasus Jews of two sub-ethnic groups Mountain Jews and Georgian Jews. There are about 15,000–30,000 Caucasus Jews (as 140,000 immigrated to Israel, and 40,000 to the US). Arabs in the Caucasus: a population of nomadic Arabs was reported in 1728 as having rented winter pastures near the Caspian shores of the Mugan plain (in present-day ...
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, [a] Europid, or Europoid) [2] is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. [3] [4] [5] The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of ...
The Northwest Caucasian languages, [1] also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, [2] Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages (from Ancient Greek, pontos, referring to the Black Sea, in contrast to the Northeast Caucasian languages as the Caspian languages), is a family of languages spoken in the northwestern Caucasus region, [3] chiefly in three Russian republics ...
The North Caucasian languages, sometimes called simply Caucasic, is a proposed language family consisting of a pair of well established language families spoken in the Caucasus, predominantly in the north, consisting of the Northwest Caucasian family (also called Pontic, Abkhaz–Adyghe, Circassian, or West Caucasian) and the Northeast Caucasian family (also called Nakh–Dagestanian, Caspian ...
Musa vy V. PROG hwuona 2S. DAT telefon telephone jettazh strike. CVsim Muusaa vy hwuona telefon jettazh Musa V.PROG 2S.DAT telephone strike. CVsim It's Musa on the phone for you. (After answering the phone.) References ^ "Ingush". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 2024-12-26. ^ a b c Ingush at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) ^ "Ingush in Russian Federation ...