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 | | The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Caspian, Nakh-Dagestanian, or Dagestanian, are a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, in northern Azerbaijan, and in Georgia, as well as in diaspora populations. |
 | | This family is known for the complex phonology (up to 60 consonants or up to 30 vowels in some languages), noun classes, ergative sentence structure, and large number of noun cases, including several locative cases. |
 | | Urartian was the language of Urartu, a powerful state centered in the area of Lake Van in Turkey, that existed between 1000 BC or earlier and 585 BC. |
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