Re: Caucasian phonologies and orthographies

> An Adobe document on how the many consonants and few vowels of North
> Caucasian languages are represented in Cyrillic writing.
>
> http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/caucasus/kaukschr.pdf
>
Some other source for Caucasian phonology and orthography:
http://linguarium.iling-ran.ru/publications/alw_cau_over.shtml
Link to pdf table is in the bottom of the page.

There are:

a.. ACL - transcription used in this edition for transliteration from
languages which don't used Roman script.
a.. IPA - transcription proposed by International Phonetic Association.
a.. other - other variants of transcriptions used in works concerning
Caucasian languages.
a.. Kabardian - Latinized Circassian Alphabet proposed by Amjad Jaimoukha
from Jordan [Jamoukha 2000].
a.. Chechen - Latin script which tried to adopt in Chechnya in 1997.
a.. Laz - alphabets used now for Laz language by some intellectuals with
slight variations.
a.. Lezgi - Latin alphabet used for Lezgi in 1928-38.
a.. Other columns show Cyrillic alphabets currently used for languages
indicated.

Jirik

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