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Kabardian is classified by linguists as being a Northwest Caucasian language, in the Circassian branch. To a considerable extent, it is mutually intelligible with Adyghe (or West Circassian), and ideas differ about the relative status of those two varieties, though other Circassian varieties such as Abaza, Abkhaz, and Ubykh are somewhat more distantly related.
Abkhazo-Adyghian languages. The Abkhazo-Adyghian group consists of the Abkhaz, Abaza, Adyghian, Kabardian, and Ubykh languages. Adyghians and Kabardians are often considered members of a larger, Circassian group. Abkhaz, with about 90,000 speakers, is spoken in Abkhazia (the southern slopes of the western Greater Caucasus, Georgia).
Kabardian is an understudied and endangered Circassian (Northwest Caucasian) language spoken by approximately 647,000 people, primarily in Russia and Turkey. Although the largest concentration of Kabardian speakers is found in the Kabardino-Balkar republic of Russia, approximately one half of Kabardian speakers now reside in Turkey after a mass ...
Kabardian, language. Circassian nationalists reject the distinction between the two languages and refer to them both as "Circassian". It is spoken mainly in parts of the North Caucasus republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia , and in Turkey, Jordan and Syria . It has 47 or 48 consonant phonemes, of which 22 or 23 are fricatives, depending upon whether one counts as phonemic ...
John Colarusso. John Colarusso is a linguist specializing in Caucasian languages. Since 1976, he has taught at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. [1] Colarusso has published more than sixty-five articles on linguistics, myths, politics, and the Caucasus; he has also authored three books, edited one, and is finishing two further books. [2]
Kabardian. A North Caucasian language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, also known as East Circassian.
Ossetian is the sole survivor of the branch of Iranian languages known as Scythian. The Scythian group included numerous tribes, known in ancient sources as the Scythians, the Massagetae, the Saka, the Sarmatians, the Alans, and the Roxolani. The more easterly Khwarazm and Sogdians were also closely affiliated in linguistic terms.
