The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian Language, and there is debate as to whether the Hurrian language was also of this group, or a Language Isolate.

Originating from Nesa, they conquered Hattusa in the 18th century BC, imposing themselves over Hattian and Hurrian speaking populations ( Hurrian was a Language Isolate and Hattian a Northwest Caucasian language ).

For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical * has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has and but no plain ; similarly, historical * in the Northwest Caucasian languages became palatalized to in Ubykh and in most Circassian dialects.

Some members of the Northwest Caucasian family, and almost all of the Northeast Caucasian languages, manifest noun class.

Among Northwest Caucasian languages, only Abkhaz and Abaza have noun class, making use of a human male / human female / non-human distinction.

* Northwest Caucasian, also called Abkhaz / Adygh or Circassian ;

A connection between the Northeast and Northwest phyla is seen as likely by many linguists ; see the article on the North Caucasian languages for details.

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The Northwest Caucasian languages (, ), also called Abkhazo-Adyghean, or sometimes Pontic as opposed to Caspian for the Northeast Caucasian languages, are a group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region, chiefly in Russia ( Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay – Cherkessia ), the disputed territory of Abkhazia, and Turkey, with smaller communities scattered throughout the Middle East.

Northwest Caucasian languages have rather simple noun systems, manifesting only a handful of cases at the most, coupled with highly agglutinative verbal systems so complex that virtually the entire syntactic structure of the sentence is contained within the verb.

All Northwest Caucasian languages are left-branching, so that the verb comes at the end of the sentence and modifiers such as relative clauses precede a noun.

Northwest Caucasian Family Tree

There are five recognized languages in the Northwest Caucasian family: Abkhaz, Abaza, Kabardian or East Circassian, Adyghe or West Circassian, and Ubykh.

The Adyghe ( Adyge, Adyg ) language is one of the more widely spoken Northwest Caucasian languages.

It was the only Northwest Caucasian language never to have a literary form.

A number of factors make the reconstruction of the Northwest Caucasian proto-language problematic:

* most roots in Northwest Caucasian languages are monosyllabic, and many are single consonants ;

For these reasons, Proto – Northwest Caucasian is widely accepted as being one of the most difficult proto-languages to deal with, and it is therefore more difficult than most to relate to other families.

Some scholars have seen affinities between the Northwest Caucasian ( Circassian ) family and the extinct Hattic language.

Many Northwest Caucasian ( Adygean ) family names have prefixes like " Hath " or " Hatti ", and one of the well known Adyghe tribes has the name " Hattiqwai " () ( From Хьаты (“ Hatti ”) +‎ Кхъуэ (“ male or son ”); meaning “ HattiSon ”).

Many linguists join the Northwest and Northeast Caucasian languages into a North Caucasian family, sometimes simply called Kavkazian ( in opposition to Kartvelian ( South Caucasian ), which is thought to be unrelated, albeit heavily influenced by their northern neighbours ).

In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that name that it is recognised as one of the official languages of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

These include some Berber languages and some languages of the American Pacific Northwest, such as Nuxálk.

Linguistically, the Canaanite languages form a group within the Northwest Semitic languages ; its best-known member today is the Hebrew language, being mostly known from Iron Age epigraphy.

Other languages in the Northwest Semitic Canaanite group include ; Phoenecian, Ugaritic, Amorite, Ammonite, Moabite and Edomite.

This group distinguishes itself from the Northwest and South Semitic languages by its SOV word order, while the other Semitic languages usually have either a VSO or SVO order.

His research focused upon the languages of the Pacific Northwest.

The Cree language ( also known in the most broad classification as Cree-Montagnais, Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi, to show the groups included within it ) is the name for a group of closely related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117, 000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Labrador.

The only region where Cree has official status is in the Northwest Territories, together with eight other aboriginal languages.

That language, one of the country's aboriginal languages, is not official throughout Canada, but was ( and still is ) official in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

CBC television stations in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon tailor their programming mostly to the local native population, and broadcast in many native languages, such as Inuktitut, Gwichʼin, and Dene.

The Hebrew language is a member of the larger group of Canaanite languages within Northwest Semitic.

The Ibero-Caucasian group would also include three extinct languages: Hattic, which has been connected by some linguists to the Northwest ( Circassian ) family, and Hurrian and Urartian, which have been connected to the Northeast ( Nakh – Dagestanian ) family.

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In addition to the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes region and the Southeastern United States have had many reports of Bigfoot sightings.

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However, one of the variants of western Nunavut is called Inuinnaqtun to distinguish itself from the dialects of eastern Canada, while the variants of the Northwest Territories are sometimes called Inuvialuktun and have in the past sometimes been called Inuktun.

One male known to researchers in the Pacific Northwest ( identified as J1 ) was estimated to have been 59 years old when he died in 2010.

Moncacht-Apé, a Native American explorer, may have traveled from near the mouth of the Mississippi River to the Atlantic, and from there to the coast of the Pacific Northwest, sometime in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

According to some historians, Jefferson understood he would have a better claim of ownership to the Pacific Northwest if the team gathered scientific data on animals and plants.

Killer whales are the moose's only known marine predator as they have been known to prey on them when swimming between islands out of North America's Northwest Coast.

U. S. orchestras that have gone into Chapter 11 bankruptcy includes the Philadelphia Orchestra ( in April 2011 ), and the Louisville Orchestra, in December 2010 ; orchestras that have gone into Chapter 7 bankruptcy and have ceased operations include the Northwest Chamber Orchestra in 2006, the Honolulu Orchestra in March 2011, the New Mexico Symphony in April 2011, and the Syracuse Symphony in June 2011.

The failure of these systems can have catastrophic consequences, as in the case of Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, Birgenair Flight 301 ( investigators suspected that some kind of insect could have created a nest inside the pitot tube: the prime suspect is a species called the black and yellow mud dauber wasp ), Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, AeroPeru Flight 603 ( blocked static port ), and of one X-31.

( based in Florida ), Patti Brooks KGMI ( based in the Pacific Northwest ), Free Talk Live ( based in New Hampshire ), Penn Jillette ( based in Las Vegas ), Jay Severin ( based in Boston, Massachusetts ), and Mark Davis ( based in Ft. Worth and Dallas, Texas ) have also achieved some success.

Ohio would thus be granted access to most or all of the Lake Erie shoreline west of Pennsylvania, and any other new states carved out of the Northwest Territory would have access to the Great Lakes via Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior.

In the United States, cappuccinos have become popular concurrent with the boom in the American coffee industry through the late 1990s and early 2000s, especially in the urban Pacific Northwest.

The Epirotes, speakers of a Northwest Greek dialect, different from the Dorian of the Greek colonies on the Ionian islands, and bearers of mostly Greek names, as evidenced by epigraphy, seem to have been regarded with some disdain by some classical writers.

However, modern historians have confirmed Rae's discovery of the Northwest Passage and the accuracy of his report on cannibalism among Franklin's crew.

Jainism retreated to the West and Northwest, which have remained its stronghold to the present.

Other attempts to create TVA-like regional agencies have failed, such as a proposed Columbia Valley Authority for the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

In the case Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder ( 2009 ), the Supreme Court ruled that the district should have greater capability of applying for exemption from this section.

Scenes of this nature have developed in New York City ( centering on the Lower East Side and Red Hook, Brooklyn ), in Southern California ( primarily the Los Angeles area ), in the San Francisco Bay area, and in the Pacific Northwest.

" Moore and Henry Kuttner also have Northwest Smith hum the song in their 1937 short story " Quest of the Starstone ," which quotes several lines of lyrics.