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kbdKabardian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Kabardian language, also known as East Circassian (see: Circassian language), is a Northwest Caucasian language, closely related to the Adyghe language. It is spoken mainly in the Russian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia (the native territories) and in Turkey and the Middle East (the extensive post-war diaspora). It has 47 or 48 consonant phonemes of which 22 or 23 are fricatives, depending upon whether one counts as phonemic, but this is contrasted with just three phonemic vowels. It is one of very few languages to possess a clear phonemic distinction between ejective affricates and ejective fricatives.

Entry terms

  • Kabardian language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • kbd

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • kbd

ISO 639-3 code

  • kbd

Notation

  • kbd

In other languages

  • Kabarde

    French

  • kabardien
  • kabardin
  • Kabardinisch

    German

  • Kabardinische Sprache
  • kabardia

    Italian

  • Lingua cabarda
  • kabardiano

    Portuguese

  • kabardiano

    Spanish

  • Idioma cabardiano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kbd

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