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    are typologically distinct languages. However, the local terms for these languages refer to them as dialects. The Circassian people call themselves адыгэ...
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    Circassian) language, though some reject the distinction between the two languages in favor of both being dialects of a unitary Circassian language. The literary...
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    languages, the Circassians (including Kabardian people) consider the eastern and western language variants to be dialects of one Circassian language....
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    Northwest Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages (from Ancient Greek...
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    Circassians in diaspora in over 50 countries. The two Circassian languages—western Adyghe and eastern Kabardian—are natively spoken by the Circassian...
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    during the Russo-Circassian War; Circassians are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and a nation; who natively speak the Circassian languages and originate...
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    Circassian nationalism is the desire among Circassians worldwide to preserve their heritage and culture, save their language from extinction, raise awareness...
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  • Proto-Circassian (or Proto-Adyghe–Kabardian) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Adyghean and Kabardian languages. The consonant system is reconstructed...
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    speaks their native Circassian languages as it is still spoken in many Circassian villages, and the group that preserved their language the best are the...
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    The Circassian genocide, or Tsitsekun, was the systematic mass killing, ethnic cleansing, and forced displacement of between 95% and 97% of the Circassian...
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    Cherkessia/Circassia. It is the same or similar in many world languages that cite these languages. Circassians themselves don't use the term "Circassia", and refer...
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    Circassians in Iraq refer to people born in or residing in Iraq, that are of Circassian origin. Like all Iraqis, Circassians in Iraq faced various hardships...
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  • have assimilated to speak the Persian language, and no significant number speak their native Circassian languages anymore. Once a very large minority in...
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    The Circassian diaspora are ethnic Circassians around the world who were driven from Circassia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
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    Circassians in Jordan (Adyghe: Иорданием ис Адыгэхэр, romanized: Yiordaniyem yis Adıgəxer; Arabic: الشركس في الأردن) are descendants of Circassian refugees...
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    language more fluently than their native Turkish and Circassian languages. The Circassian people in Germany are predominantly Muslim. The Circassians...
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    Circassians in Syria refer to the Circassian diaspora that settled in Syria (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the 19th century. They moved to Syria...
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  • Circassian coast, on the Black Sea Circassians, also known as Adyghe people Circassian diaspora Circassian language, a Northwest Caucasian language or...
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    Chaldean Neo-Aramaic speakers are found in the northeast of Syria. Circassian languages are spoken in some villages south of Aleppo, as well as in the Homs...
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    concept of Circassian beauty is an ethnic stereotype of the Circassian people. A fairly extensive literary history suggests that Circassian women were...
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    Hatuqway (category Circassian tribes)
    which is in the Circassian language branch of the Northwest Caucasian languages. Nowadays, the number of speakers of this language has decreased considerably...
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    Abazins (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    Abaza language, a Northwest Caucasian language most closely related to Abkhaz, and more distantly related to the Ubykh and Circassian languages. There...
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  • Turkic languages such as Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Uyghur, and Kazakh, as well as languages of the Caucasus such as Western and Eastern Circassian languages and...
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  • or Circassian Khabze, also known as Khabzism, is the worldview and moral code of the Circassian people. Traditionally associated with Circassian paganism...
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    Ubykh people (category Circassian tribes)
    group of the Circassian nation, represented by one of the twelve stars on the green-and-gold Circassian flag. Along with the Circassian tribes of Natukhai...
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    Empire existed). The other Anatolian languages included Luwian and later Lycian, Lydian and Milyan. All these languages are believed to have become extinct...
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  • Caucasian language, possibly in the Circassian subgroup. According to linguist John Colarusso, Chakobsa is also known as shikwoshir or the 'hunting language' and...
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  • p. 443. ISBN 978-0-313-31617-3. Richmond, Walter (9 April 2013). The Circassian Genocide. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-6069-4. Archived from...
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    school taught in the Adyghe, Turkish and Russian languages. Before the end of the Russo-Circassian War in 1864, a mass deportation was launched against...
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    Circassian cuisine is an ethnic cuisine, based on the cooking style and traditions of the Circassian people of the North Caucasus. This region lies between...
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