Talk:North Caucasian languages
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[edit] Hurrians were Northeast-Caucasian People
- Diakonov I.M., Starostin S.A. Hurro-Urartian as an Eastern Caucasian Languages. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, R. Kitzinger, München 1986.
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- Дьяконов И.М. Языки древней Передней Азии. М. 1963.
- Дьяконов И.М. Алародии (Хурриты, урарты, кутии, чеченцы и дагестанцы) // Сб. Алародии: этногенетические исследования. Махачкала, 1995.
- Старостин С.А., Николаев С.Л. Севернокавказские языки и их место среди других языковых семей Передней Азии//Cб. Лингвистическая реконструкция и древнейшая история Востока. "Hаука", Главная редакция восточной литературы, Москва, 1984.--Awarenstuermer 12:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
- Nice, but some sources in English would be quite helpful. Do you happen to have any? (not that I cannot bite through Russian text) --Pet'usek [petrdothrubisatgmaildotcom] 22:28, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Proto-North Caucasian
Below is my slowly growing suggestion for the part on PNC. I plan to use works by Nichols and Starostin/Nikolayev.
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Nikolayev and Starostin reconstruct the following phoneme inventory for the North Caucasian proto-language:
| Obstruents | |||||||||||
| Labials | Dentals | Velars | Uvulars | Epiglottals | Glottals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Interdentals) | Alveolars | Postalveolars | Palatals | Laterals | |||||||
| Stops | voiceless (aspirated) | p | t | k | q | ʡ | ʔ | ||||
| voiced | b | d | g | ɢ | |||||||
| glottalized | p’ | t’ | k’ | q’ | |||||||
| Affricates | voiceless (aspirated) | (f) | ts | tʃ | tɕ | tɬ | |||||
| voiced | dz | dʒ | dʑ | dɮ | |||||||
| glottalized | ts’ | tʃ’ | tɕ’ | tɬ’ | |||||||
| Fricatives | voiceless | (θ) | s | ʃ | ɕ | ɬ | x | χ | ʜ | h | |
| voiced | (ð) | z | ʒ | ʑ | (ɮ) | (ɣ) | ʁ | ʢ | ɦ | ||
| Sonorants | |||||||||||
| Plain | w | r | l | ||||||||
| Glides | u̯ | j | ɫ | ||||||||
| Nasals | m | n | |||||||||
...oh, pity I don't have time to finish it now... --Pet'usek [petrdothrubisatgmaildotcom] 22:28, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
