Adyghe language

Spoken in

• Nordwestkaukasisch Circassian Adyghe

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Adyghe ( proper name адыгэбзэ [ adəgăbză ] ) is next to Russian official language of the Autonomous Republic of Adygea in the Russian Federation. It is spoken by different tribes: the Schapsugh, the Bsedugh, the Absech, the Temirgoj, the Hakutschi, among other things, the Kabardians

In Russia, probably 125,000 people speak Adyghe as their mother tongue, there are the 500,000 worldwide. The largest Adygei community, consisting of approximately 277,000 speakers in Turkey. Approximately 4,000 Circassians live in Galilee in Israel. The school-age children in the villages of Kfar Kama and Rehaniye also teaching in adygeischer language.

Adyghe belongs to the family of Northwest Caucasian languages ​​and is referred to along with the Kabardian as " Circassian ". It is mainly spoken in the Autonomous Republic of Kabardino -Balkaria in addition to the Balkar language. Related languages ​​are Ubychisch, Abkhazian, Abasinisch.

Like all Northwest Caucasian languages ​​, the Adygei an agglutinative language structure and a high number of consonants. In the different dialects there are between fifty and sixty consonants, many of them ejectives. In the vernacular of Abdsach an additional, very rare palatal Ejektiv exists.

The language was standardized by the October Revolution and used the Cyrillic alphabet from 1938. Prior to 1927, had been a Latin -based alphabet in on the use of an anabolic to the Arabic alphabet and 1928.