Karachay-Balkar
Turkic language
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Summary
Karachay-Balkar is a language[1]. Karachay-Balkar ranks in the top 3% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,254 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Russia[3], Soviet Union[4], Russian Empire[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6]
- Subclass of: Kipchak–Cuman[7]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[8], Latin script[9]
- Wikimedia language code: krc[10]
- Said to be the same as: Balkar dialect[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Karachay-Balkar language[12]
- Described at URL: https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=kcb[13]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 305,364[14], 310,400[15]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[16]
- Native label: Къарачай-малкъар тил[17], qaraçay-malqar[18], Таулу тил[19], Qaraçay-Malqar til[20], Tawlu til[21]
- Short name: qaraçay-balkarca[22], хъæрæсейаг-балхъайраг[23]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[24]
- Indigenous to: Kabardino-Balkaria[25], Karachay-Cherkessia[26]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KRC[27]
- Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[28]
- Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[29]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Karachay-Balkar-language films[30]
- Entry in abbreviations table: карач.-балк.[31]
Why It Matters
Karachay-Balkar has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] Karachay-Balkar is known by 98 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]