Hakuchi dialect

Hakuchi
ХьакIуцубзэ Kh′ak′ucubză, Къaрaцхaибзэ Qaracxaibză
Native to	Turkey
Language family	Northwest Caucasian (or Pontic) Adyghe (or Circassian) West Adyghe Shapsug Hakuchi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	xaku1238

Hakuchi (Xakuchi; Хьакӏуцубзэ Template:IPA-ady Kh′ak′ucubză or Къaрaцхaибзэ Qaracxaibză in Hakuchi Adyghe) is a variety of the Shapsug sub-dialect of West Adyghe dialect of Adyghe language spoken in Turkey.

The dialect is phonologically peculiar when compared to the other Adyghe sub-dialects. Its lexicon and consonantal system are substantially affected by the Ubykh Adyghe dialect, the first language of many Hakuchi speakers before its death. Hakuchi Adyghe is one of the most divergent dialects from the literary dialect of Adyghe.

Phonology

The Hakuchi has an uvular ejective [qʼ] and a labialized uvular ejective [qʷʼ] that correspond to West Adyghe and Kabardian Adyghe glottal stop [ʔ] and labialized glottal stop [ʔʷ].

Word	Hakuchi dialect		Ubykh	West Adyghe		Kabardian
	IPA	Cyrillic		IPA	Cyrillic	IPA	Cyrillic
two	tʼqʷʼə	тӏыкъӏу	tʼqʷʼa	tʷʼə	тӏу	tʼəw	тӏу
to say	qʼan	къӏон (къӏуэн)	qʼan	ʔʷan	ӏон	ʔʷan	ӏуэн
hand	qʼa	къӏэ	q'a:p'a	ʔa	ӏэ	ʔa	ӏэ
table	qʼaːna	къӏанэ	?	ʔaːna	ӏанэ	ʔaːna	ӏанэ
hat	paːqʷʼa	пакъӏо (пакъӏуэ)	?	paːʔʷa	паӏо	?	?

See also

• Adyghe language
  • West Adyghe dialect
    • Abzakh Adyghe sub-dialect
    • Bzhedug Adyghe sub-dialect
    • Shapsug Adyghe sub-dialect
  • Ubykh Adyghe dialect
  • Kabardian Adyghe dialect
    • Besleney (Cherkessian) Adyghe sub-dialect

References

• John Colarusso, A grammar of the Kabardian language, University of Calgary Press, 1992, ISBN 0-919813-99-2, p. 2
• Henricus Joannes Smeets, Studies in West Circassian phonology and morphology, Hakuchi Press, 1984, pp. 3,361,452