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The Besleney ( Circassian: Bеслъэней, ; ) are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes, representing one of the twelve stars on the green-and-gold Circassian flag. By character, culture and language, the Besleney are closest to Kabardians. The noble families of the Besleney were Kanoko and Shaloho, ancestors of Kabardian Prince Beslan, (the son of legendary Prince Inal), who established his own tribe of the same name.
The Besleney people speak the Besleney sub-dialect () of the Kabardian Adyghe dialect (East Circassian). However, because the Besleney tribe lived at the center of Circassia, the Besleney dialect also shares a large number of features with dialects of the West Adyghe dialect. Like the Adyghe Shapsug sub-dialect, there exist a palatalized
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the words "man" and "quarter" are pronounced as and compare to Standard Kabardian and The Besleney dialect has aКонсонантная система уляпского говора в сопоставлении с аналогами других диалектов адыгских языков
UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive - Recording Details for Kabardian Beslenei dialect
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Population
The majority of the Besleney live in the valley of Bolshaya and Malaya Laba Rivers and on the bank of Urup in the Russian Republics of Karachay-Cherkessia,Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and is administratively a part of the Southern Federal District. Its administrative center is the t ...
and Adygea. They also extend to the valleys of Chetem, Fars, Psefir, Kuban (Western Circassia).
Language
The Besleney people speak the Besleney sub-dialect () of the Kabardian Adyghe dialect (East Circassian). However, because the Besleney tribe lived at the center of Circassia, the Besleney dialect also shares a large number of features with dialects of the West Adyghe dialect. Like the Adyghe Shapsug sub-dialect, there exist a palatalized voiced velar plosive
The voiced velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many Speech communication, spoken languages.
Some languages have the voiced pre-velar plosive, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulat ...
, a palatalized voiceless velar plosive
The voiceless velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is k.
The sound is a ver ...
and a palatalized velar ejective , which were merged to , and in other Circassian dialects. The Besleney dialect also has an alveolar lateral ejective affricate , which corresponds to an alveolar lateral ejective fricative in most other varieties of Circassian.UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive - Recording Details for Kabardian Baslanei dialectIn the first word list calle
the words "man" and "quarter" are pronounced as and compare to Standard Kabardian and The Besleney dialect has a
voiceless glottal fricative
The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant '' phonologically'', but often lacks the ...
that corresponds to in other Circassian dialects.See also
* East Adyghe dialect * West Adyghe dialect * Other Circassian tribes * Rescue of Leningrad Jewish children in BesleneiReferences
External links
UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive - Recording Details for Kabardian Beslenei dialect
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