Language and Text
2020. Vol. 7, no. 3, 28–35
doi:10.17759/langt.2020070302
ISSN: 2312-2757 (online)
Hebrew Influences and Self-Identity in the Judeo-Georgian Language and in the Caucasus “Mountain of Tongues”
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Keywords: Hebrew Influences, Judeo-Georgian Language, Mountain of Tongues, the Caucasus
Journal rubric: General and Comparative Historical Linguistics
Article type: scientific article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2020070302
For citation: Nesher S. Hebrew Influences and Self-Identity in the Judeo-Georgian Language and in the Caucasus “Mountain of Tongues” [Elektronnyi resurs]. Âzyk i tekst = Language and Text, 2020. Vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 28–35. DOI: 10.17759/langt.2020070302.
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The Caucasus region has been called the “Mountain of Tongues”. History writers from Herodotus, 2,500 years ago, until present time have given different numbers of languages, e.g. the Greek geographer and historian Strabo (64 BCE- 21 CE) claimed more than 70 tribes speaking different languages, Pliny stated that the Romans used 130 interpreters when trading. At present more than 50 languages are spoken in the Caucasus (Catford 1977: 283).
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