Caucasian language

Caucasian language
noun
a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
Syn: ↑Caucasian
Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue
Hyponyms: ↑Chechen, ↑Circassian, ↑Georgian, ↑Ubykh

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