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Caucasian Albanian, AKA Aghwan or Old Udi, is an extinct member of the Northeast Caucasian languages. It was spoken in Caucasian
Albania, which stretched from current day south Dagestan to Azerbaijan. Linguists believe it is an early linguistic predecessor
to the endangered North Caucasian Udi language. In 1996, Zaza Aleksidze of the Centre of Manuscripts in Tbilisi, Georgia,
discovered a palimpsest at St. Catherine's Monastery in Mt. Sinai, Egypt, with an unknown script. He went on to identify the
alphabet as Caucasian Albanian, and to identify the manuscript as an early Christian lectionary from about the 5th or 6th
century. The Lectionary may be the earliest extant Lectionary in the Christian religion. Then linguists Jost Gippert and Wolfgang
Schulze got involved with the Caucasian Albanian alphabet. Specialized x-ray equipment with MuSIS was used, which made it
possible to read the Caucasian Albanian palimpsest texts in their entirety. A list of Caucasian Albanian month names, which
survived in a number of medieval manuscripts, gave one of the clues to the language. Apart from the Caucasian Albanian palimpsests
kept at Mt. Sinai, the most famous samples of Caucasian Albanian inscriptions were found in 1949 during excavations in Mingachevir
region, Azerbaijan. Among the known Caucasian Albanian words are zow (I), own (and) and avel-om (much, ordinal form). The
deciphered text samples of the language include an excerpt from the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. |
Names (more)[az] Qafqaz albanlarının dili[de] Alwanische Sprache [en] Aghwan [hy] Աղվաներեն [ka] კავკასიის ალბანეთის ენა [pl] Język albański [ru] Агванский язык [uk] Агванська мова |
Language type : Extinct
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