The Socio-linguistic Aspect of Cultural Interaction among the Peoples of the Caucasus

Author: Ufuk Tavkul

Source: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Volume 55, Number 4, 20 December 2002 , pp. 353-377(25)

Publisher: Akademiai Kiado

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Abstract:

The traces of socio-cultural interaction between the ethnic groups that are neighbours to each other but speak different languages are reflected in their languages. Common words and concepts appear in the languages of both ethnic groups. The Caucasus, which is the subject of our article, is a broad geographical region where a great many different ethnic groups live together and have been mixing ethnically with each other for hundreds of years. Our purpose is to study the vocabulary of different ethnic groups' languages to determine the cultural and linguistic interaction between them. It is possible to draw the conclusion from our study that there is widespread ethnic and cultural interaction among all the peoples of the Caucasus.

Keywords: the peoples of the Caucasus; language; socio-linguistics; the language groups of the Caucasus; cultural interaction; culture

Document Type: Research article

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