Balkar language
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Karachay-Balkar
Къарачай-Малкъар/Qarachay-Malqar
Spoken in: Russia 
Region: Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia
Total speakers: 400,000
Language family: Altaic1 (controversial)
 Turkic
  Kypchak
   Kypchak-Cuman
    Karachay-Balkar 
Writing system: Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet
Language codes
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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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

Bibliography

  • Chodiyor Doniyorov and Saodat Doniyorova. Parlons Karatchay-Balkar. Paris: Harmattan, 2005. ISBN 2-7475-9577-3.

References

  1. ^ "[1] Ethnologue"

External links

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1 Mixed language.   2 Also Oghuz.   3 Disputed.
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