This map, created by Jake Coolidge for GeoCurrents In 2012, with the help of Russian linguist Asya Pereltsvaig, it shows the distribution of languages in the Caucasus region.
This mountainous region is characterised by a complex ethnic-linguistic network. To facilitate visualisation, the authors mark the families to which each language corresponds in the legend:
- North-Eastern Caucasian languages (Northeast Caucasian), such as the Avar or the Lezguian.
- Northwestern Caucasian languages (Northwest Caucasian), such as Kabardian or Adyghe.
- Kartvelian languages (South Caucasian), such as Georgian.
- Indo-European languages (Indo-European), such as Russian, Armenian and Kurdish.
- Nakh languages (Nakh), such as Chechen.
- Semitic languages (Semitic), such as the Assyrian.
- Turkic languages (Turkic), such as the Azerbaijani
The main languages in the region correspond to the official and majority languages of the four countries that have territory in the region: Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
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