Based on phonological research of 37 Northwest and Northeast Caucasian languages, the author proposes for them an original and phonetically complete generalized featural alphabet shaped via peculiar usage of the morphological principles... more
Based on phonological research of 37 Northwest and Northeast Caucasian languages, the author proposes for them an original and phonetically complete generalized featural alphabet shaped via peculiar usage of the morphological principles of construction of millennial South Caucasian alphabets. Unlike the phonetically inconsistent Cyrillic alphabets currently in use, it has exceptional properties for precise and alphabetically unequivocal rendition of all phonetic peculiarities of the North Caucasian languages which possess the largest consonant inventory among all languages of the world.
The publication of the Adyghe folklore text from a popular Aydamyrqan cycle, reflecting the Hakuch sub-dialect of the Shapsygh dialect of Adyghe, recorded by the author in the August of 1983 in the village of Khadzhiko (Greater Sochi... more
The publication of the Adyghe folklore text from a popular Aydamyrqan cycle, reflecting the Hakuch sub-dialect of the Shapsygh dialect of Adyghe, recorded by the author in the August of 1983 in the village of Khadzhiko (Greater Sochi region). The text is given both in Adyghe Cyrillic and in Latin transcriptions with morphemic analysis and grammatical comments. The author discusses typological parallels to the story in the Nart epics and in the ancient Greek mythology, specifically, in the myth of Oedipus Rex.
The paper discusses the system of verbal forms of the Shapsug dialect of Adyghe (Western branch of the North-Caucasian language family) expressing the semantics of “discontinuous past” (pluperfect). A detailed study of the semantics of... more
The paper discusses the system of verbal forms of the Shapsug dialect of Adyghe (Western branch of the North-Caucasian language family) expressing the semantics of “discontinuous past” (pluperfect). A detailed study of the semantics of the pluperfect forms in both temporal and atemporal uses is presented. From the typological point of view, the Shapsug system is non-trivial in that it distinguishes between perfective, imperfective and irrealis types of pluperfect.
Основываясь на исследованиях по фонетике северокавказских языков, автор выявляет структурное несоответствие между исключительно богатым консонантизмом данных языков и их нынешними кириллическими алфавитами и, выдвигая идею о необходимости... more
Основываясь на исследованиях по фонетике северокавказских языков, автор выявляет структурное несоответствие между исключительно богатым консонантизмом данных языков и их нынешними кириллическими алфавитами и, выдвигая идею о необходимости создания собственных и независимых систем письма для 37 западно- и восточнокавказских языков, находящихся под угрозой исчезновения, предлагает совершенно новую, оригинальную и обобщенную алфавитную систему, наделенную высшей степенью графемно-фонемной взаимооднозначности и основанную на принципах знакоформирования и морфологическом применении элементов графики трех исторических алфавитов Южного Кавказа и Армянского Нагорья.
