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Proto-Northwest Caucasian language
Reconstructed ancestor of the Northwest Caucasian languages From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Proto-Northwest Caucasian (sometimes abbreviated PNWC), also Proto-Adyghe-Abazgi or Proto-Adyghe-Abkhaz, is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Northwest Caucasian languages.
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Phonology
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Consonants
- 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.
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Grammar
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Vocabulary
See also
Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Northwest Caucasian reconstructions
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