Adyghe, Abkhaz, and Ubykh are all related but nonetheless very distinct languages. Linguists have estimated that they separated thousands of years ago (4000-2000 BC), and nowadays they are not mutually intelligible.
I was wondering what language was used to communicate between Adyghe and Abkhaz people at meetings like this one (princely conference of Abkhazians, Ubykhs, and Circassians), in pre-1864 times (when I assume that Russian was still not spoken fluently by many Adyghe and Abkhaz). Was there the need for translators, or was there some kind of lingua franca spoken by both populations, or was Russian already widespread?
Complete hypothetical and no offense meant :D
My country, Sweden, is very culturally and ethnically similar to our neighbours, and it seems like in a different timeline we could have been one nation (tho obviously I want to keep our independence today). Idk if Caucasus is similar at all. Just wondering how close North Caucasians under Russian/Georgian rule view each other
Come join the r/AskGreaterMiddleEast sub. We have all different types of people from Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa etc. Users all ask each other random questions, learn from each other and just overall have a good time. I even made the Abkhaz flag Flair ππ.
We currently have no Abkhaz members which is a shame since we would love to ask you guys some questions and learn from you ππ»ππ».
Hopefully see you there.
(Mods sorry if promoting other relevant subs here is not allowed).
What is the Abkhaz word for the old apswara practice of assisting neighbors, friends in farming. If someone in a village needed assistance with harvest, then every working-age person would help them. Was there a term for this? This was very common before collectivization occurred in the 1930s.
Hello. I was wondering if anyone here knew what the best way to get into contact with the Abkhaz State Archive. There are some records I have been looking for that I feel as though they might be one of the few people to actually have lying around, and it would be nice to be able to see if they could help.
I want to show you the Common Voice Project, a project of Mozilla Foundation (Mozilla build Firefox, Thunderbird, MDN, etc.).
The project name is Common Voice; its goal is to collect voices of people to create a free and open-source dataset, which you could use for various topics, like educational, AI, etc. and currently just "Big tech" have projects like this and they required many money to use their datasets. In addition, "Big tech" develop their datasets and language models just for the most spoken languages. Mozilla, instead, wants to collect ALL languages (you can add your language also if it's a less spoken one): because Mozilla doesn't get anything (any earnings!) from this project.
This is the project's website (but wait, continue to read this post, :)): https://commonvoice.mozilla.org
Helping this project is very simple, you are asked to record sentences that are shown to you or you can validate recordings from other people.
All your information and data are protected, in fact you can contribute anonymously (without creating a profile).
u/sav22999 is maintaining the Android app "CV Project" to make it easier for people using smartphones to contribute to this dataset .
The app is free and open-sourc, available on all major Android app stores (Google Play, F-Droid, GitHub, Huawei AppGallery and Amazon AppStore).
You can download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.commonvoice.saverio
the code of the app is here: https://github.com/Sav22999/common-voice-android/
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Why am I promoting this project?
I'm not paid by Mozilla, I didn't earn anything, I do this as volunteering.
You can find more information the developer of the android app here. He is a volunteer of the Italian Mozilla community: https://people.mozilla.org/p/Sav22999
You can also come join is in the subreddit for this project r/cvp
