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CAUCASIAN LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
Synonyms:
Caucasian; Caucasian language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Caucasian language" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Caucasian language"):
Chechen (a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Chechen)
Circassian (a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian)
Georgian (a southern Caucasian language with 3 million speakers and a long literary tradition)
Ubykh (an extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey)
