Ghaz (Ghaz: газ; g(h)az) is a Caucasian language isolate spoken in Caucasia, in the Republic of Ghazya (or Ghaz Republic) which is a small territory just north of Abkhazia/Abkhaz Republic. Ghaz is a very old language, which has been spoken over 6,500 years ago. Its ancient history is poorly documented, and its ancestral language has been spoken by the ancient civilization known as the "Ghazic people". It was first assumed that Ghazic was a single tongue, but it was later revealed that it was multiple languages from as single, ethnolinguistic family. The Ghaz language that we know has emerged around the 3rd century AD or even earlier. The language's people have migrated into the northern parts of Caucasia, settling and forming tribal kingdoms.
By the end of the 9th century AD, Ghaz has been influenced by Old East Slavic/Russian, Arabic and Persian. However, it retained its original lexicon, though it was written in the Arabic script through the medieval periods.
In the early 1930, Ghaz has officially adopted its own Cyrillic writing system called Ghaz Cyrillic.
The language was spoken during the times of the Soviet Union, but it was less known and spoken because Russian and Ukrainian were highly demanded as the primary languages spoken throughout the communist union. By 1985, Ghaz became more prominent in its region. And in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet state, the Ghaz people and their unique, isolated language became "independent", since the nation got its own republic, the Republic of Ghazya or the Ghaz Republic. Ever since then, the language became widely used in the republic and land, and even in some other parts in Caucasia.
This is the language translator for my constructed universe/world, please note that it won't be updated 24/7. I'll probably make Proto-Ghazic in the future or its sibling languages, but that's not fully guaranteed.
Upon translating, you'll notice a symbol which is a plus (+), if you don't understand what it means, I'll summarize it:
The plus sign means the word is a cognate with another Ghazic language or is a loanword from another unrelated language.
Thank you for reading this (if you've made it so far), please leave suggestions so I can improve the translator... best regards, the creator.
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