Karachay-Balkar
Turkic language of the North Caucasus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karachay–Balkar (Къарачай-Малкъар тил, Qaraçay-Malqar tıl), or Mountain Turkic[3][4] (Таулу тил, Taw-lụk[5] tıl), is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia, European Russia, as well as by an immigrant population in Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay-Baksan-Chegem, which pronounces two phonemes as /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ and Malkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as /ts/ and /z/. The modern Karachay–Balkar written language is based on the Karachay–Baksan–Chegem dialect. The language is closely related to Kumyk.[6]
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Karachay–Balkar | |
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къарачай-малкъар тил таулу тил | |
Native to | North Caucasus |
Region | Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay–Cherkessia, Turkey |
Ethnicity | Karachays, Balkars |
Native speakers | 310,000 in Russia (2010 census)[1] |
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Cyrillic Latin in diaspora | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Kabardino-Balkaria (Russia) Karachay-Cherkessia (Russia) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | krc |
ISO 639-3 | krc |
Glottolog | kara1465 |
Karachay–Balkar is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2] | |
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