Editing Caucasus (section)

==Demographics==
{{Main|Peoples of the Caucasus}}

{{Further|Languages of the Caucasus}}
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[[File:Caucasus-ethnic-1995.jpg|thumb|upright=1.45|[[Ethno-linguistic group]]s in the Caucasus region as of 1995.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ethnolinguistic groups in the Caucasus region. |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/95680196/ |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref>]]
The region has many different languages and language families. There are more than 50 ethnic groups living in the region.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Caucasian peoples |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |url=https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9021862/Caucasian-peoples}}</ref> No fewer than three language families are unique to the area. In addition, Indo-European languages, such as [[East Slavic languages|East Slavic]], [[Armenian language|Armenian]] and [[Ossetian language|Ossetian]], and [[Turkic languages]], such as [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]], [[Kumyk language]] and [[Karachay-Balkar language|Karachay–Balkar]], are spoken in the area. [[Russian language|Russian]] is used as a ''[[lingua franca]]'' most notably in the North Caucasus.

The peoples of the northern and southern Caucasus mostly are [[Shia Islam|Shia Muslims]], [[Sunni Muslims]], [[Eastern Orthodox Christians]] or [[Armenian Apostolic Church|Armenian Christians]].