• Source: Proto-Northwest Caucasian language

Proto-Northwest Caucasian (sometimes abbreviated PNWC), also Proto-Adyghe-Abazgi or Proto-Adyghe-Abkhaz, is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Northwest Caucasian languages.




Phonology






= Consonants

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In Circassian and Abkhaz, gʷǝ is heart and in Ubykh it's gʲǝ.
The most noticeable changes are:

The uvular consonants (/χ/ /ʁ/ /χʷ/ /ʁʷ/) become pharyngeal consonants (/ħ/ /ʕ/ /ħʷ/ /ʕʷ/) in the Proto-Abazgi language.




Grammar






= Numbers

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= Words

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See also



Proto-Circassian language
Proto-Abazgi language




References



STAROSTIN, Sergei A.; NIKOLAYEV, Sergei L. (1994). A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary: Preface.




External links


Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Rumpun bahasa Kaukasus Barat Laut
• Proto-Northwest Caucasian language
• Northwest Caucasian languages
• Pontic languages
• Northeast Caucasian languages
• North Caucasian languages
• Proto-Circassian language
• Proto-Abkhaz–Abaza language
• List of proto-languages
• Kartvelian languages
• Borean languages