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North Caucasian

noun

  1. a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.


adjective

  1. of or relating to this language family.
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Example Sentences

Boasting a 24-0 record built over the course of a nine-year career, ‘The Eagle’, as he likes to be called, brings a particularly hard and damaging grappling style into the Octagon that was hammered into him since he could walk the rugged terrain on which generations of North Caucasian men have been instructed to battle.

“According to the testimonies of the freed hostages and the names in the passports, we can say that the militants were representatives of one of the North Caucasian nationalities,” he said.

If you’re a North Caucasian young man of dark complexion, I’d seriously think about moving to Turkey until the Olympics are over.

In Russia, where the Kremlin has long compared Al Qaeda’s attacks on the United States to attacks by North Caucasian insurgents in central Russia, a statement from the office of President Smitri A. Medvedev called the American a “serious success” against international terrorism.

In East Europe especially, where they are for the most part comparatively recent intruders, the Mongols are found only in isolated and vanishing groups in the Lower and Middle Volga basin, the Crimea, and the North Caucasian steppe, and in more compact bodies in Rumelia, Bulgaria, and Hungary.

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