Caucasian people have white skin.
The adjective Caucasian refers to someone who is a native of the Caucasus or to someone who is linked to this region that develops between Asia and Europe . In this way it is possible to speak of the Caucasian race , Caucasian people , Caucasian language , etc.
A person is said to be Caucasian when their skin color is white . The notion arose from an assumption of its origin. A Caucasian or Caucasoid individual therefore has a light complexion .
Caucasian people
Caucasian people are generally native to Europe , North Africa , South Asia and certain regions of America . In any case, skin color varies according to multiple factors and cannot be exclusively associated with a certain country or a certain continent.
It is important to highlight that the division of human beings into races such as Caucasian, black and others is no longer usually used because it often motivates racism (the discrimination of subjects according to the race attributed to them). Furthermore, numerous anthropologists affirm that our species does not have races.
racism
The use of the term "white" to designate a race arose in 1781 when a German socioanthropologist named Johann Friedrich Blumenbach proposed it to distinguish the European population from others. In his hypothesis he maintained that light-skinned people had appeared in the Caucasus mountains, and that from there they had dispersed to other lands.
Racism has been and continues to be one of the most serious and regrettable problems of our species. Already in 1855, a French diplomat and philosopher named Joseph Arthur de Gobineau proposed the superiority of the Nordic race above all others, in his Essay on the Inequality of Human Races . In the same way, he maintained that the mixture between different ethnicities was harmful since it could degenerate the purity of the races.
The region that includes and surrounds the mountain range of the same name is called Caucasus.
Caucasian peoples
The Caucasian peoples , on the other hand, are the ethnic groups that reside in the Caucasus region. These may be communities living in areas of Russia , Georgia , Azerbaijan , Armenia , Turkey or Iran .
The languages spoken by these ethnic groups are known as Caucasian languages . Georgian , Chechen and Abaza are among these languages, used by thousands of people in the Caucasus region.
The languages of the region
Since all the languages spoken in the Caucasus have some phylogenetic relationship with others (both from the same region and from abroad), it is said that no Caucasian language is isolated , that is, they are not natural and lacking links with others. , alive or dead.
Thanks to the work of comparison between the Caucasian languages, specialists have established the existence of three disjoint families , which at first do not seem to be related: the southern ones , those of the northwest and those of the northeast .
The South Caucasian language family is also called South Caucasian , Kartvelian languages , or Georgian family , and includes Suano (also known as Svan ), Georgian , Mingrelian (or Magrelian ), and Lazo (or Laz ). ; These last two are very close to each other.
The other two families are part of the northern family . Regarding the northwest Caucasian languages , it has three branches : Ubijé , Adigué and Abaza . According to the studies of certain specialists, this family should also include Hatti , an ancient language, now extinct, that was spoken in Anatolia.
Finally, there is the Northeast Caucasian family , also called Nakh-Dagestan , which distinguishes between the languages of Dagestan and those of the central north , where we find Ingush , Chechen and Bacic .