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Language code: cau

Technical information about ISO 639 language code cau

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The table below provides technical details for the Caucasian languages language, designated by the cau code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

cau

Name

Caucasian languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Kartvelian (South Caucasian)Northwest CaucasianNortheast Caucasian
Related languages
GeorgianSvanMingrelianAbkhazAbazaAdygheKabardianAvarChechenLezgian
Key facts
Known for extremely large consonant inventories, often including ejectivesMany languages use ergative or split-ergative case alignmentNoun-class systems can be elaborate, with up to six grammatical gendersConsonant clusters can be so long that some words contain no vowelsThe three branches have no conclusively proven genetic relationship to one another or to any language family outside the Caucasus
Sample phrase

გამარჯობა, როგორ ხარ?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Caucasian languages language, identified by the code cau, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Geographic' by its type.

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