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Political formations in Daghestan spread like some “net”, the checks of
which were not isochronous and equal in political hierarchy of “all-sufficiency”.
Poly-ethnicity of some regions of Daghestan within some lingual families and
groups is a phenomenon of cultural response to historically-formed social-political
system. In other words it is the result of a cultural and lingual divergent
evolution which took place simultaneously saving their inner ethno-cultural
unity.
Small (in quantity) ethnic groups with a single-village language in Daghestan
weren’t formed where there were “vacuums” of economic and cultural
relations but in the conjunction of relations between isolated communities. In
other words ethnic minority groups in the Caucasus are not the result of information
isolation as it had been considered before. Single-village languages are
known to exist in Daghestan. But they, big communities, informants of singlevillage
languages (Kubachi, Botlikh, Ghodobery, Tindi, Archib, an exception –
Archib) are situated in the conjunction of economical and cultural relations.
But single-village languages are political “isolates” that is they were not included
in any political formation like free communities which founded a vaster political
fields where every community differed from others a little, and in the language
– only the dialect and twangs.
We consider here one of the aspects of the ethnic process, which was historically
formed in the Highland Daghestan as a cultural response to the forms
of the social-political system of the people in this region. This response came
out as highly-integrated form of the main features of the culture with simultaneous
clear-cut divergent evolution of other cultural characteristics. As the result the
present ethno linguistic situation occurred. The statement of P.Uslar which A.
Chikobava often quotes that “Caucasian languages in their wonderful variety
have cognate features” concerns not only linguistic but ethno-cultural form in
whole which is external reflection of the social-political system of the region. It
is quite clear the examined regularity according to a formula “politica-ethnica”
suits the other regions of the Caucasus.
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