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Udi (also called Uti or Udin) [3] is a language spoken by the Udi people and a member of the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. [4] It is believed an earlier form of it was the main language of Caucasian Albania, which stretched from south Dagestan to current day Azerbaijan. [5]
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language.. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects.
Language names listed in Merritt Ruhlen, A Guide to the World's Languages, Vol. 1: Classification (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1987), pp. 301–378. Copied from the info file compiled by Kazuo Morishima, Lawrence Reid, Saranya Savetamalya, David Stampe, Ryo Stanwood, and Fumio Usami, March 1988. Note: the info file was compiled by hand.
Linguists such as Sergei Starostin see the Northeast (Nakh-Dagestanian) and Northwest (Abkhaz–Adyghe) families as related and propose uniting them in a single North Caucasian family, sometimes called Caucasic or simply Caucasian. This theory excludes the South Caucasian languages, thereby proposing two indigenous language families. [6]
Adyghe is a language of the Northwest Caucasian family which, like the other Northwest Caucasian languages, is very rich in consonants, featuring many labialized and ejective consonants. Adyghe is phonologically more complex than Kabardian , having the retroflex consonants and their labialized forms.
In 1886, a group of French and English language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association (in French, l'Association phonétique internationale). [6] The idea of the alphabet had been suggested to Passy by Otto Jespersen.
However, your Caucasian-colored glasses clearly show that the Mexican caravan carrying “illegal aliens” and MS-13 gangsters is totally different from the ships carrying undocumented English ...
Ubykh, an extinct Northwest Caucasian language, has the largest consonant inventory of all documented languages that do not use clicks, and also has the most disproportional ratio of phonemic consonants to vowels.