Qafesona

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Qafesona
ӄафесона тил
ყაჶესონა ტილ
քաֆեսօնա թիլ
قــاـفـِـسـُـنــا تـِـل
Pronunciation: [ˈqafɛˌsonǝ ˈсil]
Spoken in: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia
Region: Caucasus
Total speakers: ? (native)
Ranking: ?
Language family: Slavic languages
Writing system: Cyrillic alphabet, Georgian alphabet, Armenian alphabet, Arabic, Latin alphabet
Official status
Official language in: none
Regulated by: unregulated
Language codes
ISO 639-1 qf
ISO 639-2 qaf
SIL qaf
See also: LanguageLists of languages


The Qafesona language (Qafesona: ӄафесона тил, IPA: [ˈqafɛˌsonǝ ˈсil]) is a small language isolate within the Slavic language family. It is spoken on both sides of Georgia's borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia (specifically Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania) and the vast majority of the language's vocabulary is of Slavic origin. However, there is also a substantial amount of words which are of clear Armenian and Georgian origin. In addition to this there are a few words that have come from Arabic and the Turkic languages. For example, "ӄаўа" ("qawa", "coffee") is from Arabic and "тил" ("til", "language") comes from Old Turkic.