Maps of Samurzakan-Zugdidi
West Caucasus: Abkhazia - the language situation in 1989
Abkhaz Linguistic Situation in 1989
Map Creator:
Ljuba Veselinova, Geographic Information Systems in Linguistics (GISLI), Stockholm University
Source:
Коряков Ю. Б. Атлас кавказских языков / РАН. Ин-т языкознания. — Москва: Пилигрим, 2006. — 76 с.: карты.
Koryakov, Y.B. The Atlas of the Caucasian languages / Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). Institute of Linguistics. — Moscow: Pilgrim, 2006. — 76c
Date Created: July 2010
Project Description:
This map depicts the linguistic situation in the year 1989 of both the Abkhaz and Abaza languages (in green/blue) of Georgia and surrounding languages in the region from the Kartvelian (purple) and Indo-European families (red/orange); multilingual regions can be found in a separate layers. Map labels will appear by zooming in level from the default (zoom level of 1:433K). In the Abkhaz language family family, further divisions within dialects here designated as subdialects It should also be noted that populated places are only places indicated in the Atlas of the Caucasian languages and do not represent an exhaustive list of populated places for this region; these places will appear on this map two levels in from the default (zoom level of 1:216K). This map can be compared with the Abkhazia - the language situation in the early 21st century map.
Other resources related to this project:
Lingvarium Project
Source:
Коряков Ю. Б. Атлас кавказских языков / РАН. Ин-т языкознания. — Москва: Пилигрим, 2006. — 76 с.: карты.
Koryakov, Y.B. The Atlas of the Caucasian languages / Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). Institute of Linguistics. — Moscow: Pilgrim, 2006. — 76c
Date Created: July 2010
Project Description:
This map depicts the linguistic situation in the year 1989 of both the Abkhaz and Abaza languages (in green/blue) of Georgia and surrounding languages in the region from the Kartvelian (purple) and Indo-European families (red/orange); multilingual regions can be found in a separate layers. Map labels will appear by zooming in level from the default (zoom level of 1:433K). In the Abkhaz language family family, further divisions within dialects here designated as subdialects It should also be noted that populated places are only places indicated in the Atlas of the Caucasian languages and do not represent an exhaustive list of populated places for this region; these places will appear on this map two levels in from the default (zoom level of 1:216K). This map can be compared with the Abkhazia - the language situation in the early 21st century map.
Other resources related to this project:
Lingvarium Project
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