Karachay-Balkar language
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Karachay-Balkar Къарачай-Малкъар/Qarachay-Malqar |
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Spoken in: | Russia | |
Region: | Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia | |
Total speakers: | 400,000 | |
Language family: | Altaic[1] (controversial) Turkic Kypchak Kypchak-Cuman Karachay-Balkar |
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Writing system: | Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet | |
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ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | krc | |
ISO 639-3: | krc | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
The Karachay-Balkar language (Къарачай-Малкъар /Qarachay-Malqar/) is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay which pronounces two phonemes as /ʧ/ and /ʒ/, and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as /ʦ/ and /z/.
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[edit] Alphabet
Modern Karachay-Balkar alphabet
А а | Б б | В в | Г г | Гъ гъ | Д д | Дж дж | Е е |
Ё ё | Ж ж | З з | И и | Й й | К к | Къ къ | Л л |
М м | Н н | Нг нг | Нъ нъ | О о | П п | Р р | С с |
Т т | У у | Ў ў | ý | Ф ф | Х х | Ц ц | Ч ч |
Ш ш | Щ щ | ъ | Ы ы | ь | Э э | Ю ю | Я я |
[edit] Bibliography
- Chodiyor Doniyorov and Saodat Doniyorova. Parlons Karatchay-Balkar. Paris: Harmattan, 2005. ISBN 2-7475-9577-3.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- http://salpagarov.narod.ru some information on the Karachay-Balkar language and people (in Russian and Karachay-Balkar)
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