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Adyghe language - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic, Anatolian, Andaman, Apache, Arabic, Aramaic, Araucanian, Arawak, Arawakan, Armenian, Aryan, Assamese |
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Adyghe (Адыгэ) is a language of the Republic of Adygeya in the Russian Federation. The language is referred to by its speakers as Adyghadze or Adyghabza, and alternatively spelled in English as Adygean, Adygeyan or Adygei.
There are apparently around 125,000 speakers of the language in Russia, almost all of them mother-tongue speakers. In the whole world, some 300,000 speak the language. The largest Adyghe-speaking community lives in Turkey.
It belongs to the Northwest Caucasian languages, and is closely related to the Kabardian language. The Abkhaz and Abaza languages are also close relatives thereof.
Adyghe has a subject-object-verb typology.
The language was standardized after the October Revolution. Since 1938, Adyghe has used the Cyrillic alphabet. Before that, an Arabic-based alphabet was used together with the Latin.
It has official status, along with Russian, in the Republic of Adygeya.
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Example Usage of language |
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nidhindtv: Please feel free to write what you feel, but filthy language won't be put on. if you can't be decent, don't come here |
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printerproblem: fix-printer-problems.com: Postcard Printing: Learn the language of Color http://bit.ly/6PW9LH |
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Too_Far_Gone: @_dharv yes! I used to frequent the AOL chat rooms. and there was that weird language where you had to be all "i'm s/f/17" or whatever |
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