Balkar dialect

E596555

The Balkar dialect is a variety of the Karachay-Balkar Turkic language spoken primarily by the Balkar people in the North Caucasus region of Russia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Balkar dialect canonical 2
Balkar language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language variety
dialect
belongsToEthnicGroup Balkars
linked to: Balkar people
closelyRelatedTo Karachay dialect
contactWith Kabardian language
Ossetian language
country Russia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasDialectalVariation regional subvarieties within Balkar-speaking areas
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony
hasWordOrder SOV
historicalScript Arabic script
Latin script
influencedBy Russian language
ISO639Macrolanguage krc
languageBranch Kipchak-Cuman
languageFamily Turkic languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith Karachay dialect
partOf Karachay-Balkar language
linked to: Karachay-Balkar
primaryRegion Kabardino-Balkaria
region North Caucasus
script Cyrillic script
spokenBy Balkar people
subdivisionOf Karachay-Balkar language
linked to: Karachay-Balkar
subfamily Kipchak branch
usedFor cultural expression
everyday communication
local media
usedIn Balkar folk literature
Balkar oral tradition

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Karachay-Balkar hasDialects Balkar dialect
Karachay-Balkar macrolanguageOf Balkar dialect
Cuman language influenced Balkar language
linked to: Balkar dialect