North Caucasian

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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.

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North Caucasian

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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