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| | Northwest Caucasian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Northwest Caucasian languages, also called Pontic, Abkhaz-Adyghe, or Circassian, are a group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region, chiefly in Russia (Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia), Georgia (Abkhazia), and Turkey, with smaller communities scattered throughout the Middle East. |
 | | They do not generally permit more than one finite verb in a sentence, which precludes the existence of subordinate clauses in the Indo-European sense; equivalent functions are performed by extensive arrays of nominal and participial non-finite verb forms (although Abkhaz appears to be developing limited subordinate clauses, perhaps under the influence of Russian). |
 | | Circassian (or Cherkess) is a cover term for the series of dialects that include the literary languages of Adyghe and Kabardian. |
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