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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 | |
| 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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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 |
- Chodiyor Doniyorov and Saodat Doniyorova. Parlons Karatchay-Balkar. Paris: Harmattan, 2005. ISBN 2-7475-9577-3.
- http://salpagarov.narod.ru some information on the Karachay-Balkar language and people (in Russian and Karachay-Balkar)
| Altaic languages |
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| Turkic languages • Mongolic languages • Tungusic languages • Japonic languages* • Korean language* |
| Notes: *Japonic and Korean are not generally recognized as belonging to the Altaic language family. See also Buyeo languages. |
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| Oghur | Bulgar† | Chuvash | Hunnic† | Khazar† | Turkic Avar† | ||
| Uyghur | Old Turkic† | Aini²| Chagatay† | 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 | Khorasani Turkic | Ottoman Turkish† | Pecheneg† | 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 | |||
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