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The Besleney ( Circassian: Bеслъэней, ''Bestləney'', ; russian: Бесленеевцы ) (also known as Beslenei or Baslaney) 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.
In 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 that corresponds to in other Circassian dialects.Консонантная 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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The Besleney ( Circassian: Bеслъэней, ''Bestləney'', ; russian: Бесленеевцы ) (also known as Beslenei or Baslaney) 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.
Population
The majority of the Besleney live in the valley of Bolshaya andMalaya
Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:
Political entities
* British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
Laba Rivers and on the bank of Urup in the Russian Republics of Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Krai and Adygea
The Republic of Adygea (; russian: Республика Адыгея, Respublika Adygeya, p=ɐdɨˈɡʲejə; ady, Адыгэ Республик, ''Adıgə Respublik''), also known as the Adyghe Republic, is a republic of Russia. It is situated ...
. They also extend to the valleys of Chetem, Fars, Psefir, Kuban
Kuban (Russian language, Russian and Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Кубань; ady, Пшызэ) is a historical and geographical region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Pontic–Caspian steppe, ...
(Western Circassia).
Language
The Besleney people speak the Besleney sub-dialect ( ady, Бэслъыныйбзэ) 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 , a palatalized voiceless velar plosive and a palatalized velar ejective , which were merged to , and in other Circassian dialects. The Besleney dialect also has analveolar lateral ejective affricate
The alveolar lateral ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (or ), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is (lambda ba ...
, which corresponds to an alveolar lateral ejective fricative
The alveolar lateral ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, reported in the Northwest Caucasian languages and in Modern South Arabian languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
Feat ...
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 that corresponds to in other Circassian dialects.
See also
* East Adyghe dialect * West Adyghe dialect * Other Circassian tribes: * Abzakh * Bzhedug * Hatuqwai * Kabardian * Mamkhegh * Natukhai *Rescue of Leningrad Jewish children in Beslenei The rescue of Leningrad Jewish children in Beslenei occurred in August, 1942, in aul of Beslenei, Cherkess Autonomous Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR, when the local Circassian villagers adopted evacuated children from Leningrad orphanage, the most ...
* Shapsug
* Temirgoy
* Ubykh
* Yegeruqwai
* Zhaney
References
External links
UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive - Recording Details for Kabardian Beslenei dialect
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