CAUCASIAN LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caucasian language mean? 

• CAUCASIAN LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun CAUCASIAN LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere

  Familiarity information: CAUCASIAN LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUCASIAN LANGUAGE (noun)

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Meaning:

A number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Caucasian; Caucasian language

Hypernyms ("Caucasian language" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Caucasian language"):

Chechen (a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Chechen)

Circassian (a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian)

Georgian (a southern Caucasian language with 3 million speakers and a long literary tradition)

Ubykh (an extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey)