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| zhiguli Senior Member Canada Joined 6443 days ago 176 posts - 221 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 9 of 14 23 March 2010 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Georgian is really the only one that has enough resources and native-language materials to make it possible to learn independently and "off-site". The others (with the possible exception of Chechen) have a negligible amount at best.
However I don't think that Georgian will give much of a discount on the other languages. Even Avar and Chechen, which are related, are said to have only about 20% common vocabulary. Grammatically speaking both are quite different from Georgian. I'd say Georgian is actually a good deal harder, especially where its fearsome verbs are concerned.
This is something the Dargins I've come across mentioned as well. I only met one who could actually understand literary Dargwa, which he had to study as a foreign language. It was that different from his native "dialect". Btw, no one mentioned Lak, but there are some good resources out there (in comparison to the miserly amount for other languages): Some textbooks, dictionaries, etc A 52-lesson course with audio ( ! ) And I might as well mention this distance-learning course from Malmo University, which offers Georgian and Chechen as language options. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 1qaz2wsx Diglot Groupie Greece Joined 5375 days ago 98 posts - 124 votes Speaks: Greek*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Albanian | Message 10 of 14 27 March 2010 at 7:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Here is a link with an Abkhaz textbook in English,Russian and Turkish:
http://learn.apsni.com/ And another one with a Chechen textbook in Russian and many other sources for various languages. http://www.franklang.ru/ Edited by 1qaz2wsx on 27 March 2010 at 4:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5450 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 11 of 14 29 March 2010 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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The Lak links look interesting. I've never been interested in Lak, but I'll look more into it.
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| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5450 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 12 of 14 19 May 2010 at 1:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Updating the thread.
Does anyone yet know of any sources for Adyghe or Avar? I've found something for Chechen (in French though, so I'll have to wait), and I've given up on Tsez. And I would like it if anyone also knows anything about the Ossetic language and resources for that. Edited by chucknorrisman on 19 May 2010 at 1:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5450 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 13 of 14 06 August 2010 at 3:20am | IP Logged | ||
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The Lak link doesn't seem to be working right now. Is there a way to access it again?
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| markdhemming Triglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 4719 days ago 16 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, French Studies: Georgian, Spanish | Message 14 of 14 10 October 2012 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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There's a grammar of Kabardian in English available here:
http://mudrac.ffzg.unizg.hr/~rmatasov/KabardianGrammar.pdf 1 person has voted this message useful |
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