Caucasian Avars & AVARiAN HiGHLANDERS iN CAUCASUS


	Caucasian Avars Avars or Caucasian Avars are a modern people of Caucasus, mainly of Daghestan, which are the predominant group. The Capital city of Caucasian Avars is Khunzakh which means “At the Huns” or “The city of Huns”. Their self designation is “Avaral” and “Ma’arulal” (from “mu’rul Avaral”, “Avarian Highlanders”). The Caucasian Avar language is said to show some affinity ancient Mesopotamian agglutinative languages like Hurrian, Sino-Tibetan and also Ket (Yenissei Ostyak) of which there are now less than 500 speakers left in Siberia. It appears from Chinese sources that a Yenisseian group was among the peoples that up the tribal confederation known as the Huns (Xiong-Nu, Hsiung-Nu). The linguistic data showed that the contacts of Yenisseian languages with Caucasian languages were later than with Basque and Burushaski not to speak about the Indian languages of America. This fact permitted to assume that Indians diverged first from that Union, then the Basques and Burushaski and later on the Caucasian people. Taking into consideration the Indian settlements in America to be 15 thousand years ago, A.Dulson approximately defined the Caucasian-Yenisseian language contact at 6-7 thousand years ago. He devoted his last period of life to Yenisseian languages and their comparison with other language families. Ket having preserved the most ancient structure in the conjugation system gave the key to the explanation of the conjugation system in such languages as Finno-Ugric, Uralo-Altaic, and Indo-European, which was based on pronouns. A.Dulson also noticed typological similarities in the structure of case-markers in Yenisseian and Indo-European. In his opinion the contacts between Yenisseian and Indo-European peoples could have existed even earlier than the Hun community in the North of Central Asia, that is not during the contacts of Indo-Europeans with the Huns on the territory of Europe. In the Caucasian Avar language the word “Avar” is always used any time Avars mention the names of Messengers, Prophets: Abraham, Noah, Moses, Jesus or Muhammad. For example; Ibrahim-Avarag, Isa-Avarag or Muhammad-Avarag.Thus the word Avarag seems to mean the descendants or followers of the Messenger, Prophet, Messia or Archangel. One of the prominent figures in Avar history is Sheikh Shamil (1797 – 1871) political and religious leader of the anti-Russian national liberation movement of the Caucasian peoples in 1817 – 1859. He was third imam of Daghestan and Chechnya (1834 – 1859) AVAR MAĐHAĻUL LATIN TĻOLBOL ALPHABET АВАРСКИЙ АЛФАВИТ (ЛАТИНИЦА)* Aa (а) Жж (ай) Bb (б) Ċċ (ч) Ċc (чч) CS cs (ч1) CZ cz (ч1ч1) CH ch (хъ) CĦ cħ (хь) Dd (д) Đð (цц) ĐŻ ðż (ц1ц1) Ee (э) Ff (ф) Gg (г) GH gh (гъ) Ġġ (дж) Hh (гь) Ħħ (х1) Ii (и) Jj (ж) Kk (к) Ķķ (къ) Ll (л) Ļļ (лъ) ĻH ļh (лълъ) Mm (м) Nn (н) Oo (о) Pp (п) Qq (к1) Rr (р) Ss (c) SH sh (ш) SZ sz (щ, ш) Tt (т) TH th (т1) TĻ tļ (кь) Uu (у) Vv (в) Ww («в» къокъаб) Xx (х) Yy (й) Zz (ц) Żż (з) ‘ (г1) Особенности правописания 1. Слова «бог», «всевышний», а также языки и этнонимы следует писать с большой буквы. 2. «Г1» соответствует как символу ударения (напр. бdlu, аmal), так и значку прямой запятой- апострофу- слева от тех же гласных «а», «о», «э», «у» «и» при написании их прописью. «Г1и» и «г1ай» передаются как «ý», «бy». В гармоничных корневых сочетаниях, заканчивающихся на «р», напр. «маг1арулав», «мег1ер», «бег1ер», «ч1ег1ер», в качестве «г1» с соответствующей гласной выступает дифтонг «ай» («ж»), т.е.:beжr, cseжr, meжr, maжrulav. Пе-ред согласным и в конце слова- għ 3. «W» служит для передачи краткого огубленного «в»: kwas, kwer, kwanaże, csważe, chważe и др. (в позиции после согласного). 4. Дифтонг «ай» («ж») употребляется в словах «лъай», «ц1ай», «бай» и т.п., а также при передачи германских по-происхождению заимствований. «Я», «ю», «ё», «е» соответствуют ya, yu, yo, ye. 5. Сочетание «Sh» для передачи «ш» используется только в начале слов. Во всех остальных случаях вместо «Sh» следует употреблять «Sz». This entry is from Wikipedia, AUTHOR : Awarenstuermer Here is the Avarian Flag ( White Khunz Wolf and Avarian swastika the sswerdiro )