Adyghe (Адыгэ) is a language of the Republic of 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.
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.
The language referred to by its speakers as Adygebze or Adəgăbză, and alternatively spelled in English as Adygean, Adygeyan or Adygei.
Kabardian is a very close relative, treated by some as a dialect of Adyghe or of an overarching Circassian language.
Adyghe, like all Northwest Caucasianlanguages, has a basic Subject Object Verb typology, and is characterized by an ergative construction of the sentence.
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