Northeast Caucasian languages

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Northeast Caucasian
East Caucasian Nakh-Daghestanian North Caspian Caspian
Geographic distribution	Caucasus
Linguistic classification	One of the world's primary language families
Proto-language	Proto-Northeast Caucasian
Subdivisions	Avar–Andic Dargic Khinalug Lak Lezgic Nakh Tsezic (Didoic)
Glottolog	nakh1245
Avar–Andic   Dargic   Khinalug   Lak   Lezgic   Nakh   Tsezic

The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestani or Vainakh-Daghestani, or sometimes Caspian languages (from the Caspian Sea, in contrast to Pontic languages for the Northwest Caucasian languages), is a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia and in Northern Azerbaijan as well as in Georgia and diaspora populations in Western Europe and the Middle East. According to Glottolog, there are currently 36 Nakh-Dagestanian languages.