I︠A︡zyki mira
Kavkazskie i︠a︡zyki
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The book is the next volume of the multivolume encyclopaedia 'Languages of the World' prepared by the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The book under consideration describes languages and dialects of the three linguistic families - Kartvelian, Abkhaz-Adygean and Nakh-Dagestanian - extinct and modern, spoken in the Caucasus on the territory of Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. All the articles are written in accordance with a standard typologically oriented template, used in all volumes of the encyclopaedia that imposes sociolinguistic, diachronic, and synchronic structural characterizations upon individual languages. The book is intended both as a fundamental study and as a reference source.
