Russia.- Uslar (Baron Pyotr Karlovich) Аварская азбука, MPHGSCA, 1865

Russia.- Uslar (Baron Pyotr Karlovich) Аварская азбука (Avarskaya azbuka), staple-bound original wrappers, occasional foxing especially on pp. 22-32., light soiling, MPHGSCA, 1865. ***The first primer and the first book printed in the Avar Language Avar "The language of the mountains" also know as Avaric, is a northeast Caucasian language of the Avar-Andic subgroup that is spoken by Avars in Dagestan. After the 1859 conquest, this primer was published as an early attempt to standardize the Avar language and bring Cyrillic script to the region. To represent the sounds of the Avar language, it used a modified Cyrillic alphabet with the addition of several Latin and Georgian letters.

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