Karachay-Balkar language

Karachay-Balkar
Къарачай-Малкъар тил Таулу тил
Native to	Russia
Region	Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay–Cherkessia, Afyonkarahisar Province
Ethnicity	Karachays, Balkars
Native speakers	310,000 (2010 census)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Cuman () Karachay-Balkar
Dialects	Karachay Balkar
Writing system	Cyrillic, Latin
Official status
Official language in	Russia Karachay-Cherkessia Kabardino-Balkaria
Language codes
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	`kara1465`
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Russia

The Karachay-Balkar language or Karachay-Balkar Turkish (Къарачай-Малкъар тил, Qaraçay-Malqar til or Таулу тил, Tawlu til) is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay-Baksan-Chegem, which pronounces two phonemes as /tʃ/ and /dʒ/, and Balkar, 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.

Modern Karachay-Balkar Cyrillic alphabet:

Modern Karachay-Balkar Latin alphabet:

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Karachay-Balkar:

Loanwords from Ossetian, Kabardian, Arabic, and Persian are fairly numerous.

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