Ibero-Caucasian languages

Short description: Proposed language family

Ibero-Caucasian

Caucasian
(controversial)
Ethnicity| Caucasian peoples
Geographic
distribution| Caucasus
Linguistic classification| Proposed language family
Proto-language| Proto-Caucasian language
Subdivisions|

* Northwest Caucasian
* Northeast Caucasian
* Kartvelian
* Hurro-Urartian?
* Hattic?

Glottolog| None

The distribution of the Caucasian languages

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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.
* Northwest Caucasian, also called Abkhazo-Adyghean.
* Northeast Caucasian, also called Nakh–Dagestanian.

The Ibero-Caucasian phylum would also include three extinct languages: Hattic, connected by some linguists to the Northwest (Circassian) family, and Hurrian and Urartian, connected to the Northeast (Nakh–Dagestanian) family as Alarodian languages.

## Contents

* 1 Family status
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading
* 4.1 Main publications
* 5 External links
* 5.1 Main research centers

## Family status

The affinities between the three families are disputed. A connection between the Northeast and Northwest families is seen as likely by some linguists.

On the other hand, there are no known affinities between South Caucasian and the northern languages, which are two unrelated phyla even in Greenberg's deep classification of the world's languages. "Ibero-Caucasian" therefore remains at best a convenient geographical designation.

## See also

* Languages of the Caucasus

## References

* Tuite, Kevin (2008). "The Rise and Fall and Revival of the Ibero-Caucasian Hypothesis". Historiographia Linguistica Vol. 35, No. 1-2. pp. 23–82.

## Further reading

### Main publications

* The Yearbook of the Iberian-Caucasian Linguistics (Tbilisi).
* Revue de Kartvelologie et Caucasologie (Paris).

## External links

### Main research centers

* TSU Institute of caucasiology
* Chikobava Institute of Linguistics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (Tbilisi).
* Department of Caucasiology at the University of Jena (Germany).
* Faculty of Philology at the Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi).

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Language families of Eurasia

Europe|

* Indo-European
* Uralic
* Basque
* Iberian
* Tartessian
* Paleo-Corsican
* Paleo-Sardinian
* Camunic
* Elymian
* Ligurian
* North Picene
* Sicani
* Tyrsenian
* Eteocretan
* Eteocypriot
* Minoan

West Asia|

* Afroasiatic
* Hurro-Urartian
* Hattic
* Kassite ?
* Kaskian ?
* Philistine ?
* Sumerian
* Proto-Euphratean ?
* Elamite

Caucasian|

* Kartvelian
* Northeast Caucasian
* Northwest Caucasian

South Asia|

* Indo-European
* Dravidian
* Nihali
* Burushaski
* Kusunda
* Harappan ?

East Asia|

* Austroasiatic
* Sino-Tibetan
* Hmong–Mien
* Kra–Dai
* Austronesian
* Japonic

Indian Ocean rim|

* Great Andamanese
* Ongan
* Kenaboi
* Enggano

North Asia|

| Altaic ?|

* Turkic
* Mongolic
* Tungusic
* Koreanic ?
* Japonic ?

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"Paleosiberian"|

* Koreanic
* Ainu
* Nivkh
* Chukotko-Kamchatkan
* Yukaghir
* Yeniseian

Other North Asia|

* Uralic
* Ruanruan ?
* Eskimo–Aleut

Proposed groupings|

* Alarodian
* Altaic
* Borean
* Nostratic
* Dené–Caucasian
* Eurasiatic
* Dené–Yeniseian
* Dravido-Korean
* Elamo-Dravidian
* Ibero-Caucasian
* Indo-Hittite
* Indo-Pacific
* Indo-Semitic
* Indo-Uralic
* Pontic
* Karasuk
* Turanian
* Eskimo–Uralic
* Ural–Altaic
* Uralic–Yukaghir
* Uralo-Siberian

| Arunachal|

* Greater Siangic
* Siangic
* Digaro
* Miju
* Hrusish
* Kho-Bwa

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Southeast Asia|

* Andamanese
* Austric
* Austro-Tai
* Austronesian–Ongan
* East Asian
* Sino-Austronesian

Substrata|

* Atlantic
* Pre-Celtic
* Pre-Germanic
* Pre-Goidelic
* Pre-Greek
* Vasconic
* Pre-Vedic
* Pre-Finno-Ugric

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