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Chakobsa (NW Caucasian?)
/šʿˊakʾ°abza/: /šʿˊakʾ°abza/

The Northwest Caucasian Languages (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics): A Phonological Survey

John Colarusso, Routledge, Jan 21, 2014 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 520 pages

SUMMARY Perhaps more than any other group of languages those of the Caucasus are famous for their enormous and difficult consonantal systems. It is by no means exceptional for one of these languages to have as many as 50 consonants, and of these languages those from the Northwest Caucasus have the largest and most complex consonantal systems. The extensive use of the articulatory regions of the mouth together with the occurrence of secondary modifications at many of these points is unequalled by any other known group of languages. This detailed study examines the languages of the Northwest Caucasus and provides an essential guide to this most complicated group of languages.

P.11, n.3 3. Perhaps to be included in the Circassian group is the secret language of the nobility, called “shikwoshir”, “chakobsa”, or the “hunting language”. Until recently the Circassians were stratified into 4 rigid social groups, roughly, princes, noblemen, freemen, and slaves. The nobles and princes had a secret language first recorded by the traveler Jacob Reineggs (1796, 248), in the form of 19 words. These words present a language which seems to share no cognates with any other language, including those of the NWC [Northwest Caucasian] family, despite the fact that its overall apperance is one of a NWC language. Long thought to be extinct this language is in fact still maintained by the descendants of the princes and nobles. In Bzedukh it is called /šʿˊakʾ°abza/. 'hunting' /šʿˊakʾ°a/ + 'language' /bza/ (the name "chakobsa" reflects an earlier form of the word, */čʿˊakʾ°abza/). My principal informant ... asserts that it is a form of Circassian in which inversion and sound mutation have been used to produce a kind of coded speech — similar to Pig-Latin, but more complex. This hypothesis has yet to be verified, but it does not seem implausible on the face of the present available data.

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Lois Lowry writing career


Lowry began her career as a freelance journalist. In the 1970s, she submitted a short story to Redbook magazine, which was intended for adult audiences but written from a child's perspective. An editor at Houghton Mifflin then suggested to Lowry that she write a children's book. Lowry agreed and wrote A Summer to Die which Houghton Mifflin published in 1977 when she was 40 years old. The book has themes of terminal illness, based on Lowry's own experiences with her sister Helen. Lowry continued to write about difficult topics in her next publication, Autumn Street (1979), which explores themes of coping with racism, grief, and fear at a young age. The novel is told from the perspective of a young girl who is sent to live with her grandfather during World War II, based on by Lowry's own experiences during the war. The same year she published Autumn Street, Lowry also published her novel Anastasia Krupnik, the first installment in the Anastasia series. The series continued until 1995.

Lowry's work Number the Stars was published in 1989, and received multiple awards, including the 1990 Newbery medal. Lowry received the Newbery medal again in 1994, for The Giver (1993). After writing The Giver, she published two companion novels which take place in the same universe: Gathering Blue (2000) and Messenger (2004). In 2012, she published Son, which tied all three of the previous books together. As a set, they are considered The Giver Quartet.

Critical reception
In her works, Lowry has explored such complex issues as racism, terminal illness, murder, the Holocaust, and the questioning of authority, among other challenging topics. Her writing on such matters has brought her both praise and criticism. In particular, The Giver (the first novel in the Quartet) has been met with a diversity of reactions from schools in America since its release in 1993; some schools have adopted it as a part of the mandatory curriculum, while others have prohibited the book's inclusion in classroom studies.