{"id":4188,"date":"2024-12-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2024-12-10T21:14:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:14:26","slug":"linguistic-map-of-the-caucasus-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/mapas-de-datos\/mapa-linguistico-del-caucaso-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistic map of the Caucasus (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0818-Mapa-linguistico-del-Caucaso-2012.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0818-Mapa-linguistico-del-Caucaso-2012-1024x731.png\" alt=\"Linguistic map of the Caucasus (2012)\" class=\"wp-image-4189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0818-Mapa-linguistico-del-Caucaso-2012-1024x731.png 1024w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0818-Mapa-linguistico-del-Caucaso-2012-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0818-Mapa-linguistico-del-Caucaso-2012-450x321.png 450w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0818-Mapa-linguistico-del-Caucaso-2012-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0818-Mapa-linguistico-del-Caucaso-2012-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0818-Mapa-linguistico-del-Caucaso-2012-1536x1097.png 1536w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0818-Mapa-linguistico-del-Caucaso-2012-2048x1463.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This map, created by <a href=\"https:\/\/jakecoolidgecartography.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jake Coolidge<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geocurrents.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">GeoCurrents<\/a> In 2012, with the help of Russian linguist Asya Pereltsvaig, it shows the distribution of languages in the Caucasus region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>North-Eastern Caucasian languages<\/strong> (<em>Northeast Caucasian<\/em>), such as the Avar or the Lezguian.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Northwestern Caucasian languages<\/strong> (<em>Northwest Caucasian<\/em>), such as Kabardian or Adyghe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kartvelian languages<\/strong> (<em>South Caucasian<\/em>), such as Georgian.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Indo-European languages<\/strong> (<em>Indo-European<\/em>), such as Russian, Armenian and Kurdish.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nakh languages<\/strong> (<em>Nakh<\/em>), such as Chechen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Semitic languages<\/strong> (<em>Semitic<\/em>), such as the Assyrian.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Turkic languages<\/strong> (<em>Turkic<\/em>), such as the Azerbaijani<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geocurrents.info\/gc-maps\/gc-language-map-of-the-caucasus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">GeoCurrents\u2019 Language Maps of the Caucasus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map, created by Jake Coolidge for GeoCurrents in 2012, with the help of Russian linguist Asya Pereltsvaig, shows the... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow66TFDA:productID":"","iawp_total_views":370,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[52,267,1201,1381,1382,265,53,63],"class_list":["post-4188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapas-de-datos","tag-52","tag-armenia","tag-azerbaiyan","tag-caucaso","tag-geocurrents","tag-georgia","tag-linguistica","tag-rusia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mapstodon.space\/@mapasmilhaud\/113655588551257587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}