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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Northwest Caucasian languages | | | |  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 upon the analysis) coupled with rich consonantal systems that include many forms of secondary articulation. Ubykh (Ubyx), for example, had both the minimal number of vowels (two), and probably the largest inventory of consonants outside Southern Africa.
Linguistic reconstructions suggest that both the richness of the consonantal systems and the poverty of the vocalic system ...
See also:Northwest Caucasian languages, Northwest Caucasian languages - Main features, Northwest Caucasian languages - Phonetics, Northwest Caucasian languages - Grammar, Northwest Caucasian languages - Classification, Northwest Caucasian languages - Circassian dialect continuum, Northwest Caucasian languages - Abkhaz-Abaza dialect continuum, Northwest Caucasian languages - Ubykh Ubyx language, Northwest Caucasian languages - Relationship to other language families, Northwest Caucasian languages - Connections to Hattic, Northwest Caucasian languages - Connections to Indo-European, Northwest Caucasian languages - North Caucasian family, Northwest Caucasian languages - Higher-level connections Read more here: » Northwest Caucasian languages: Encyclopedia II - Northwest Caucasian languages - Main features |
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| | | | | 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 consonantal systems that include many forms of secondary articulation. Ubykh (Ubyx), for example, had both the minimal number of vowels (two), and probably the largest inventory of consonants outside Southern Africa.
Linguistic reconstructions suggest that both the richness of the consonantal systems and the poverty of the vocalic systems may be the result of a historical process, ...
See also:Northwest Caucasian languages, Northwest Caucasian languages - Main features, Northwest Caucasian languages - Phonetics, Northwest Caucasian languages - Grammar, Northwest Caucasian languages - Classification, Northwest Caucasian languages - Circassian dialect continuum, Northwest Caucasian languages - Abkhaz-Abaza dialect continuum, Northwest Caucasian languages - Ubykh Ubyx language, Northwest Caucasian languages - Relationship to other language families, Northwest Caucasian languages - Connections to Hattic, Northwest Caucasian languages - Connections to Indo-European, Northwest Caucasian languages - North Caucasian family, Northwest Caucasian languages - Higher-level connections Read more here: » Northwest Caucasian languages: Encyclopedia II - Northwest Caucasian languages - Main features |
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