BALKAR ( KARACHAY-BALKAR, Karachay, Karachai, Karachayla )

Spoken by 236,000 people in Karachi-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia. Also in Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan.
Linguistic Lineage for Karachay-Balkar
Map of Russia's autonomous areas - Russia

NOTE: Karachay and Balkar are almost identical languages. Cyrillic alphabet is used. Before 1924 the Arabic script was used with additonal letters characteristic of the Turkic languages.

Source: "Luka jazg'an Syyily Injil"
The Gospel of Luke in Balkar (1999)
Institute for Bible Translation, Stockholm, Sweden
ISBN 91-88794-94-6
ISBN 5-89116-063-3
Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl - E-mail WKuhl44238@aol.com

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