Ossetian

Examples

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• But the Ossetians, they are refusing all our efforts in diplomacy.

  5 Days of War (2011)

• Many Ossetians celebrate their unique cultural heritage during the annual festival.

• These men may be Ossetians, but they will not wait forever.

  5 Days of War (2011)

• They are Ossetians like me.

  5 Days of War (2011)

• Abhazians and Ossetians kept asking the Russian government to recognize their independence for years.

  Blog text (24)

• At 7 PM, he went on Georgian state TV to promise "autonomy" to Ossetians.

  Blog text (17)

• The region's indigenous nationalities profess Islam as a cultural identity, if not a religious one (with the exception of the Ossetians, who are mostly Christian).

  Academic text (2010)

• Ossetians didn't feel Georgians (can't blame them) and announced independence in 1991.

  Blog text (24)

• We argued consistently that it would be impossible, after that, to tell the Abkhazians and Ossetians (and dozens of other groups around the world) that what was good for the Kosovo Albanians was not good for them.

  Blog text (17)

• Others would point out, accurately, that such a policy would, in effect, discriminate in favor of Ukrainians, Latvians, and other groups whose independence movements crested during the Cold War, and against groups like Ossetians and Tatars whose movements arose later.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

O

Ossete

vsOssetian

9.9

A language spoken mainly by people in Ossetia, a region in Russia and Georgia

is the language of the whole region rather than limited to certain states

O

Ossete language

vsOssetian

9.9

A language spoken mainly in North Ossetia in Russia

is broader and used across the whole region not confined to the Russian area

Compounds

S

South Ossetian Republic

9.8

A disputed region in the South Caucasus that declared independence from Georgia and is recognized by only a few countries

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology