Ethno-linguistic groups in the Caucasus in 2014

By Levent Ağaoğlu

06/10/2021

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Ethno-linguistic groups in the Caucasus region in 2014 Ethno-linguistic groups in the Caucasus region in 2014

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Language families indigenous to the Caucasus

The medieval Georgian village of Shatili

Ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region

The village of Tindi, in Dagestan, in the late 1890s

North Caucasian peoples (from left to right): Ossetians, Circassians, Kabardians, and a Chechen

Caucasians who speak languages which have long been indigenous to the region are generally classified into three groups: Kartvelian peoples, Northeast Caucasian peoples and Northwest Caucasian peoples.

Kartvelian languages

Georgians
- Dvals
- Ingiloys
- Zans
  - Lazs
  - Mingrelians
Svans

Northeast Caucasian languages

Avar–Andic peoples:
- Andis
- Akhvakhs
- Avars
- Bagvalals
- Botlikhs
- Chamalals
- Godoberis
- Karatas
- Tindis
Dargins
- Dargwa
- Kajtak
- Kubachi
- Itsari
- Chirag
Khinalugs
Laks
Lezgic peoples:
- Aguls
- Archin
- Budukhs
- Jeks
- Kryts
- Lezgins
- Rutuls
- Tabasarans
- Tsakhurs
- Udis
Nakh peoples:
- Arshtins
- Bats
- Chechens
  - Kists
- Durdzuks
- Ingush
- Malkh
Tsezic (Didoic) peoples:
- Bezhtas
- Hinukhs
- Hunzibs
- Khwarshis
- Tsez

Northwest Caucasian languages

Abazins
Abkhazians
Circassians
- Abzakhs
- Besleneys
- Bzhedugs
- Chemirgoys
- Kabardians
- Natukhajs
- Shapsugs
- Ubykhs

October 6, 2021

Dear friends and collegues,

I have been organizing boutique-elite culture-nature tours to Black Sea countries for a long time both as an organizer and as a guide, in cooperation with different travel companies, and then I started to carry out these excursions only through my own company in recent years.

Through my tourism agency named “NORTH TRAVEL”, oriented to the countries and regions which are located at the Northern Black Sea hinterland, I have already been managing travels that are constituting unique and exceptional touristic concept that does not exist almost nowhere, by none of a tourism agency regarding extent and content in Turkey.

In this context, until now, I have taken several hundreds of outstanding, qualified people from quite different environments and provinces, from very different ages and occupational groups to these geographies and regions.

As a result of having been resident in southern Russia for many years, and also having the infrastructure and network to respond to all kinds of groups and requests under all conditions / circumstances, I offer travel packages and trip offers in an extremely unique flexibility and variety, specially beginning from the summer of 2021, especially to the closed travel group candidates.

In this framework, taking into account the characteristics of the global period that is going on in particular; oriented to Georgia and the Russian Federation and Crimea which are Turkey’s closest north-eastern neighbors and also to White Russia (Belarus); I have started organising these trips, tours and I am still continuing, where the whole group itself determines the basic parameters.

In this context, for you, for your respectable corporate and personal circle, I propose tour concepts for the autumn season that we have already entered and the following winter period:

1- Tbilisi (Georgia)

2- Batumi (Georgia)

3- Sochi and its surroundings (Russian Federation)

4- Republic of Abkhazia

5- Krasnodar and Adygea Republic (Russian Federation)

6- Azov Sea surroundings (Taganrog + Rostov + Azov) _ Russian Federation

7- Republic of Crimea (long and short tours)

8- Moscow (Russian Federation)

9- Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation)

10- Minsk (Belarus – Republic of Belarus).

Your sincerely, with Best regards

OKAY DEPREM / International Cultural-Tourism Organisator and Guide