Qafesona
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| Qafesona ӄафесона тил ყაჶესონა ტილ քաֆեսօնա թիլ قــاـفـِـسـُـنــا تـِـل | |
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| 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: Language – Lists 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.