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Abaza language, the Glossary

Abaza (абаза бызшва, abaza byzshwa; абазэбзэ) is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by Abazins in Russia.^[1]

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Abazins
Endangered Caucasian languages
Karachay-Cherkessia
Languages written in Cyrillic script
Northwest Caucasian languages
Vertical vowel systems

A (Cyrillic)

А (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Abazgi languages

Abazgi is the branch of the Northwest Caucasian languages that contains the Abaza and Abkhaz languages. Abaza language and Abazgi languages are northwest Caucasian languages.

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The Abazin, Abazinians or Abaza (Abaza and Abkhaz: Абаза; Circassian: Абазэхэр; Абазины; Abazalar; أباظة) are an ethnic group of the Northwest Caucasus, closely related to the Abkhaz and Circassian peoples. Abaza language and Abazins are Karachay-Cherkessia.

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Abkhaz language

Abkhaz, also known as Abkhazian, is a Northwest Caucasian language most closely related to Abaza. Abaza language and Abkhaz language are agglutinative languages, languages of Russia, languages of Turkey, languages written in Cyrillic script, northwest Caucasian languages and Vertical vowel systems.

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Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Agglutinative language

An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination. Abaza language and agglutinative language are agglutinative languages.

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Be (Cyrillic)

Be (Б б or Ƃ, δ; italics: Б б or Ƃ, δ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Che (Cyrillic)

Che, Cha or Chu (Ч ч; italics: Ч ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Cyrillic script

The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.

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De (Cyrillic)

De (Д д; italic: Д д) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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E (Cyrillic)

Э э (Э э; italics: Э э; also known as backwards ye, from Russian е оборо́тное, ye oborótnoye) is a letter found in three Slavic languages: Russian, Belarusian, and West Polesian.

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Ef (Cyrillic)

Ef or Fe (Ф ф; italics: Ф ф) is a Cyrillic letter, commonly representing the voiceless labiodental fricative, like the pronunciation of in "fill, flee, or fall".

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Ejective consonant

In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream.

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El (Cyrillic)

El (Л л or Ʌʌ; italics: Л л or Ʌʌ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Em (Cyrillic)

Em (М м; italics: М м) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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En (Cyrillic)

En (Н н; italics: Н н) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Er (Cyrillic)

Er (Р р; italics: Р р) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Es (Cyrillic)

Es (С с; italics: С с) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Ge (Cyrillic)

Ge, ghe, or he (Г г; italics: Г г) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Hard sign

The letter Ъ ъ (italics Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic script is known as er goläm (ер голям – "big er") in the Bulgarian alphabet, as the hard sign (tvördý znak,, tverdyj znak) in the modern Russian and Rusyn alphabets (although in Rusyn, ъ could also be known as ір), as the debelo jer (дебело їер, "fat er") in pre-reform Serbian orthography, and as ayirish belgisi in the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet.

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I (Cyrillic)

The Cyrillic I (И и; italics: И и or И и; italics: И и) is a letter used in almost all modern Cyrillic alphabets with the exception of Belarusian.

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John Colarusso

John Colarusso is a linguist specializing in Caucasian languages.

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Ka (Cyrillic)

Ka (К к or K k; italics: К к or K k or К к or K k; italics: К к or K k) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Karachay-Cherkessia

Karachay-Cherkessia (Karachayevo-Cherkesiya), officially the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus.

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Ketevan Lomtatidze

Ketevan Lomtatidze (ქეთევან ლომთათიძე; February 11, 1911 – September 22, 2007) was a Georgian linguist (Caucasiologist), specialist in Kartvelian and Abkhaz studies.

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Kha (Cyrillic)

Kha, Khe, Xe or Ha (Х х; italics: Х х) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Labialization

Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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North Caucasus

The North Caucasus, or Ciscaucasia, is a region in Europe governed by Russia.

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Northwest Caucasian languages

The Northwest Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages, is a family of languages spoken in the northwestern Caucasus region,Hoiberg, Dale H. (2010) chiefly in three Russian republics (Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay–Cherkessia), the disputed territory of Abkhazia, Georgia, and Turkey, with smaller communities scattered throughout the Middle East. Abaza language and northwest Caucasian languages are agglutinative languages and languages of Russia.

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O (Cyrillic)

O (О о; italics: О о) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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Palatalization (phonetics)

In phonetics, palatalization or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.

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Pe (Cyrillic)

Pe (П п; italics: П п) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Pharyngeal consonant

A pharyngeal consonant is a consonant that is articulated primarily in the pharynx.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

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Prefix

A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.

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Pronoun

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Sha (Cyrillic)

Sha, She or Shu, alternatively transliterated Ša (Ш ш; italics: Ш ш) is a letter of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts.

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Shcha

Shcha (Щ щ; italics: Щ щ), Shta, Scha, Šče or Sha with descender is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Short I (Cyrillic)

Short I or Jot (Й й; italics: Й й or Й й; italics: Й й) (sometimes called I kratkoe, и краткое, Ukrainian: йот) or I with breve, Russian: и с бреве) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve. The short I represents the palatal approximant, like the pronunciation of in hallelujah.

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Sibilant

Sibilants (from sībilāns: 'hissing') are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth.

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Te (Cyrillic)

Te (Т т; italics: Т т) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Trill consonant

In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.

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Tse (Cyrillic)

Tse (Ц ц; italics: Ц ц or Ц ц; italics: Ц ц), also known as Ce, is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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U (Cyrillic)

U (У у; italics: У у) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaza_language

Also known as Abaza (language), Abaza phonology, Abazin language, Ashkharua, ISO 639:abq.

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Abaza language, the Glossary

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See also

Abazins

Endangered Caucasian languages

Karachay-Cherkessia

Languages written in Cyrillic script

Northwest Caucasian languages

Vertical vowel systems

References