Abkhaz-Adyghe languages

Japanese: アブハズ・アディゲ語群系 - あぶはずあでぃげごぐんけい
Abkhaz-Adyghe languages

...The peoples who spoke the Caucasian languages ​​were the indigenous peoples of this region, and are thought to have once been more widespread in the Middle East than they are today. The Caucasian languages ​​are further divided into the Abkhaz-Adyghe, Nakh-Dagestan, and Kartvelian groups (also called West, East, and South Caucasian, respectively). The Abkhaz-Adyghe peoples number about 597,000 and live in various parts of the Caucasus, from the Black Sea coast to the central Caucasus, but in the Early Middle Ages they lived as far as the Azov coast. The Circassians, Kabardians, and Abkhazians in Georgia also belong to this group. ...

*Some of the terminology referenced in the "Abkhaz-Adyghe language family" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…カフカス諸語に属する言語を用いた諸民族がこの地域の先住民族で,かつては今日より広く中東に分布していたと考えられる。カフカス諸語はさらにアブハズ・アディゲ語群,ナフ・ダゲスタン語群,カルトベリ語群(それぞれを西・東・南カフカス諸語とも呼ぶ)に分類されており,このうちアブハズ・アディゲ語群系の諸民族は,黒海沿岸からカフカス中部の各地に約59万7000人が住むが,中世初期にはアゾフ海岸までが彼らの住地であった。チェルケス人,カバルダ人,グルジアに住むアブハジア人もこのグループに属する。…

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