Karachay-Balkar language

Karachay-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:	Altaic^[1] (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/.

1 Alphabet
2 Bibliography
3 References
4 External links

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] Ethnologue"

External links

Karachay-Balkar language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

http://salpagarov.narod.ru some information on the Karachay-Balkar language and people (in Russian and Karachay-Balkar)

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v • d • e Altaic languages

Turkic · Mongolic · Tungusic · Japonic¹ · Korean¹

¹ Not always recognized as Altaic languages. See also Buyeo languages.

v • d • e Turkic languages

Oghur	Bulgar† · Chuvash · Hunnic† · Khazar† · Turkic Avar†

Southeastern	Old Turkic† · Aini² · Chagatai† · Ili Turki · Lop · Uyghur · Uzbek

Kypchak	Altay · Baraba · Bashkir · Crimean Tatar¹ · Cuman† · Karachay-Balkar · Karaim · Karakalpak · Kazakh · Kipchak† · Krymchak · Kumyk · Kyrgyz · Nogai · Old Tatar† · Tatar · Urum¹

Oghuz	Afshar · Azerbaijani · Crimean Tatar¹ · Gagauz · Balkan Gagauz Turkish · Khorasani Turkic · Ottoman Turkish† · Pecheneg†³ · Qashqai · Salar · Turkish · Turkmen · Urum¹

Arghu	Khalaj

Northeastern	Chulym · Dolgan · Fuyü Gïrgïs · Khakas · Shor · Tofa · Tuvan · Western Yugur · Sakha/Yakut

Notes: ¹Listed in more than one group, ²Mixed language, ³Disputed, †Extinct