Caucasian, Caucasian language

a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that have no known affiliations to languages spoken elsewhere

• Georgian — a southern Caucasian language with 3 million speakers and a long literary tradition
• Circassian — a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian people
• Ubykh — a virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey

• natural language, tongue — a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language