| 释义 |
Abaza, n. (and a.)|əˈbɑːzə|
Also Abas, Abazah, etc.
[Native name of the people for themselves; cf. Russ. abazinskiy.]
a. A member of a north-west Caucasian people, inhabiting mainly the Karachaev-Cherkess Autonomous Region of the U.S.S.R.
b. The language of this people, classified with Abkhaz in the Abkhaz-Adygey sub-group of north-west Caucasian languages. Also attrib. or as adj.
1814[see Chechen]. 1838[see Abkhaz]. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XV. 609/1 The Abkhasians or Abázahs. Ibid. XIX. 532/2 An Abázah chief. 1956Trans. Philol. Soc. 1955 128 The Abaza language has experienced a succession of orthographies, based on Arabic, Roman, and Cyrillic letters. Ibid. 138 Abaza displays no such clear distinction as that of Noun and Verb in most Indo-European languages. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics viii. 331 Abaza, a Caucasian language, has been cited as an extreme case of a verb-centred language in which the verb form represents in itself a sort of small-scale model of the structure of the whole sentence. 1977Language LIII. 450 An excellent sketch of some areas of Abaza phonology and morphology..exists. 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 232 According to the 1970 census there were 96,331 speakers of Adyche, 311,078 of E. Circassian in the USSR. This contrasts with 24,449 speakers of Abaza and 79,835 of Abkhaz. |