Northwest Caucasian languages - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Northwest Caucasian Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Northwest Caucasian Languages - Classification
There are five recognized languages in the Northwest Caucasian family: Abkhaz, Abaza, Kabardian or East Circassian, Adyghe or West Circas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wichita Language: Encyclopedia - Wichita Language
Wichita is a moribund Caddoan language spoken in Oklahoma. Fewer than a dozen fluent speakers remain, and the language is spoken very rar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bilabial Trill: Encyclopedia - Bilabial Trill
The bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Languages Of The Caucasus: Encyclopedia - Languages Of The Caucasus
The languages of the Caucasus are a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in the Caucasus ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Labialisation: Encyclopedia Ii - Labialisation - Transcription
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, labio-velarization of consonants is indicated with a raised double-u diacritic, as in kÊ·. There ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sibilant Consonant: Encyclopedia Ii - Sibilant Consonant - Symbols
Of the sibilants, the following have IPA symbols of their own: Alveolar: s, z (either apical or laminal) Postalveolar: ʃ, Ê...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bilabial Trill: Encyclopedia Ii - Bilabial Trill - In Other Languages
The bilabial trill exists as a phoneme in a few languages. In most of the languages where it occurs, it occurs only as a prenasalised bil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wichita Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Wichita Language - Sounds
Wichita has been claimed to be unusually asymmetrical at a phonemic level, though this is less apparent at a phonetic level. Wichita lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Northeast Caucasian Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Northeast Caucasian Languages - Language Classification
The classification of the Northeast Caucasian languages has undergone some reorganization in recent years. The following tree is a typica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Languages Of The Caucasus: Encyclopedia Ii - Languages Of The Caucasus - Possible Affinities With Other Languages
Since the birth of comparative linguistics in the 19th century, the riddle of the apparently isolated Caucasian language families has att...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polysynthetic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Polysynthetic Language - Origin Of Term
The term "polysynthesis" was probably first used in a linguistic sense by Peter Stephen Duponceau (a.k.a. Pierre Étienne Duponceau) in 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sibilant Consonant: Encyclopedia Ii - Sibilant Consonant - Inventories
Only the alveolar and palato-alveolar sibilants are distinguished in English; the former are apical, while the latter are slightly labial...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sibilant Consonant: Encyclopedia Ii - Sibilant Consonant - Other Definitions Of Sibilant
Some authors, as for instance Chomsky & Halle (1964), group [ f ] and [ v ] as sibilants. However, they do not ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Languages Of The Caucasus: Encyclopedia Ii - Languages Of The Caucasus - Proposed Higher-level Classifications
A topic that has attracted much research since the 19th century is the classification of the four major Caucasian families into larger gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Languages Of The Caucasus: Encyclopedia Ii - Languages Of The Caucasus - Language Families
Languages of the Caucasus - Families restricted to the Caucasus area. Most of the languages spoken in the Caucasus area fall into three...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sibilant Consonant: Encyclopedia Ii - Sibilant Consonant - The Term
The term sibilant is often taken to be synonymous with the term strident, though historically this is incorrect, and there is variation i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wichita Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Wichita Language - Grammar
It is agglutinative, but surface forms often differ to actual morphemic shapes due to the usage of a series of unusual phonological proce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polysynthetic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Polysynthetic Language - Definition
The degree of synthesis refers to the morpheme-to-word ratio. Languages with more than one morpheme per word are synthetic. Polysynthetic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Labialisation: Encyclopedia Ii - Labialisation - Where Found
Labialisation is the most widespread secondary articulation in the world's languages. It is found in the Northwest Caucasian, Athabaskan,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polysynthetic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Polysynthetic Language - Examples
Examples of polysynthetic languages include Inuktitut, Mohawk, Classical Ainu, Central Siberian Yupik, Cherokee, Sora, Chukchi and numero...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Northwest Caucasian Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Northwest Caucasian Languages - Main Features
Northwest Caucasian languages - Phonetics. The entire family is characterised by a paucity of phonemic vowels (two or three, depending ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Northwest Caucasian Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Northwest Caucasian Languages - Main Features
Northwest Caucasian languages - Phonetics. The entire family is characterised by a paucity of phonemic vowels coupled with rich consona...   » Read the article