Re: Hello All!!

william drewery ikrí:

>    I've had a lot of trouble trying to find any real
> info on Agul or other Causasian languages, with the
> exception of Georgian.
Try http://www.peoples.org.ru
It has an English version and a section on Caucasian langs. Unf., links are few,
descriptions even fewer, and most of the are in Russian.
The most typical North Caucasian language - Adyghe (aka Adige, Adygian,
Circassian) - is presented at
http://www.circassianweb.com/language/index.shtml
If you read in Russian, there is an even more tremendous resource at
http://zihia.narod.ru/adygabze.htm
And its sister lang/dialect, Kabardian (in English):
http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Enterprises/2493/circlang.html


> What I have found implies that
> most of these languages are endangered and
> understudied.
That's an exaggeration. Many "one-village" languages of Northern Caucasus are
indeed in danger, because their speakers switch to bigger interethnic/trade
languages. But bigger languages of N.C, being official or/and supported by
regional autonomous authorities, like Adyghe, Ingushian, Chechen (probably; we
don't know the situation because of the war) and major Daghestani langs: Avari,
Lezgi, Laki, Tsakhurian, Tabasaran feel well. Have a look at
http://www.dagpravda.ru They have fresh news in Daghestani official langs
(including Kumyk: a Turkic lang of the Northern Caucasus).

~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~

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