Editing Nakh languages (section)

===Tsov===
According to Georgian scholars I. A. Javashvili and [[Giorgi Melikishvili]], the [[Urartu|Urartian]] state of [[Sophene|Supani]] was occupied by the ancient Nakh tribe Tsov, whose state is called Tsobena in ancient Georgian historiography.<ref>Джавахишвили И. А. Введение в историю грузинского народа. кн.1, Тбилиси, 1950, page.47-49</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ахмадов |first=Шарпудин Бачуевич |title=Чечня и Ингушетия в XVIII - начале XIX века |year= 2002|publisher= "Джангар", АПП|location=[[Elista]] |isbn= <!-- 5-94587-072-3 note: this ISBN is invalid - probably a publisher error, or OCR error-->|page= 52}}</ref><ref>Гаджиева В. Г. Сочинение И. Гербера Описание стран и народов между Астраханью и рекою Курой находящихся, М, 1979, page.55.</ref> The Tsov language was the dominant language spoken by its people, and was thought by these Georgian historians (as well as a number of others) to be Nakh. Tsov and its relatives in the area may have contributed to the [[Hurro-Urartian languages|Hurro-Urartian]] substratum in the [[Armenian language]].