North Caucasian

American  

noun

1. a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.

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adjective

1. of or relating to this language family.

Example Sentences

If Russian forces move into Chechnya, violence could easily spill into the neighboring republics of the North Caucasian region, a volatile melting pot of ethnic groups that share Chechen suspicions of Kremlin intentions.

From Time Magazine Archive

But southward the North Caucasian flatlands were suffering the same fate as the Dutch-Belgian lowlands.

From Time Magazine Archive