Karachay-Balkar

Karachay-Balkar
Къарачай-Малкъар/Qarachay-Malqar
Native toRussia
RegionKabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia
Native speakers
400,000
Altaic[1] (controversial)
  • Turkic
    • Kypchak
      • Kypchak-Cuman
        • Karachay-Balkar
Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-2krc
ISO 639-3krc

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 /tʃ/ and /ʒ/, and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as /ts/ and /z/.

References

  1. ↑ "[1] Ethnologue"
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