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Ibero-Caucasian
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language family
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Caucasus
- Ethnicity
- Caucasian peoples
- Native speakers
- c. 10 million (2020)
- Linguistic classification
- Proposed language family
- Proto language
- Proto-Caucasian language
- Subdivisions
- Northwest Caucasian Northeast Caucasian Kartvelian Hurro-Urartian ? Hattic ?
- Glottolog
- None
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- human language
- Has part
- Northeast Caucasian
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- Commons category
- Languages of the Caucasus
- topic's main category
- Category:Caucasian languages
- different from
- languages of the Caucasus
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Encyclopedic overview
Ibero-Caucasian (or Iberian-Caucasian) is a proposed language family suggested by Georgian linguist Arnold Chikobava of the three language families that are specific to the Caucasus mountains region of Eurasia.
Ibero-Caucasian languages would include: South Caucasian, also called Kartvelian.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ibero-Caucasian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.