Karachay-Balkar
Karachay-Balkar (Къарачай-Малкъар тил, Qaraçay-Malqar tıl), or Mountain Turkic (Таулу тил, Tawlu 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.
| 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) |
Turkic
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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 | |
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