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Encyclopedia > Balkar language

Karachay-Balkar (Къарачай-Малкъар /qarachay-malqar/) is a Turkic language of the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay (pronouncing /ch/) and Balkar (pronouncing /ts/). Karachays are Turkic people of Karachay-Cherkessia. ... The Balkar (малкъар /malqar/) people are a Turkic people of the Caucasus region, thet titular population of Kabardino-Balkaria. ...


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Languages of the Caucasus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (910 words)
The languages of the Caucasus are a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Most of the languages spoken in the Caucasus area fall into three widely accepted language families.
It has been speculated that the South Caucasian languages may be related to the extinct Iberian language, spoken until the 1st century BC in the Iberian peninsula (which is known as "Western Iberia" in the Caucasus, to distinguish it from the Caucasian Iberia).
Caucasus Foundation (208 words)
Balkars turned to Islam in the eighteenth century under Nogai and Tatar influence, and were incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1827.
On 8 March 1944 the entire Balkar population was deported and spread throughout the Kazak and Kirgiz republics.
In 1991 the First Congress of the Balkar People met with the aim of obtaining equal political participation and to restore their homeland, by demanding their territorial rights and full rehabilitation for losses during the years of deportation.
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