Kfar Kama dialect () is a

subdialect Subdialect (from Latin , "under", and Ancient Greek , ''diálektos'', "discourse") is a linguistic term designating a dialectological category between the levels of dialect and idiolect. Subdialects are basic subdivisions of a dialect. Subdialect ...

of the

Shapsug The Shapsug ( , , , , ) (also known as the Shapsugh or Shapsogh) are one of the twelve major Circassians, Circassian tribes. Historically, the Shapsug tribe comprised one of the largest groups of the Black Sea Adyghe (Причерноморск ...

dialect of Adyghe spoken by the villagers of the village

Kfar Kama Kfar Kama (, , ) is a Circassian town located in the Lower Galilee of Israel's northern district, located along road 767, that leads from Kfar Tavor to the Kinneret. It is one of the only two Circassian towns in Israel, the other being Rehan ...

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Phonology

The Kfar Kama dialect shares a large number of features with other Shapsug dialects such as dropping and not pronouncing н , м and р in some cases, and having the consonants сӏ , гь , кь , кӏь and чъу that correspond to цӏ , дж , ч , кӏ and цу in other Adyghe dialects (e.g.

Abzakh The Abzakh (Adyghe language, Circassian: Абдзэх, ''Abdzekh''; Russian language, Russian: абадзехи) also known as Abdzakhs or Abadzekhs are one of the twelve major Circassians, Circassian tribes, representing one of the twelve star ...

Temirgoy The Chemirgoy or Temirgoy are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes, representing one of the twelve stars on the green-and-gold Circassian flag. They lived between the lower flows of the Belaya and Laba Rivers and their lands extended no ...

and

Bzhedug The Bzhedugh (, ; ; ) are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes. Many of them immigrated to Turkey in the 1860s, but there is still a community of Bzhedug on the left bank of the Kuban River (in the vicinity of Krasnodar).Rywkin & Wixman, p. ...

).Переднеязычные мягкие шипящие аффрикаты дж, ч, к1
Also like other Shapsug dialects the Retroflex affricates consonants чъ and чӏ (that exist in Chemguy and

dialects) became ч and кӏ in the Kfar Kama dialect.Переднеязычные твердые шипящие аффрикаты дж, чъ, ч1
Unlike some other Shaspug dialects the Kfar Kama dialect does not have the aspirated consonants.

The consonant /h2>
*This 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 ...
in some words that correspond to in other diaelcts :

Uvular consonants

In some cases къ and къу became хъ and хъу :

Grammar differences

Nouns

In the instrumental case the noun has the suffix -мгьэ (-mɡʲa) or -гьэ (-gʲa) unlike other dialects (e.g.

and

) that has the suffix -мкIэ (-mt͡ʃa) or -кIэ (-t͡ʃa) : * Kfar Kama dialect: Кӏалэр Адыгэбзэгьэ мэгущаӏэ ↔ Standard: Кӏалэр Адыгэбзэкӏэ мэгущаӏэ - "The boy speaks (using) Adyghe language". * Kfar Kama dialect: Къэлэмымгьэ сэтхэ ↔ Standard: Къэлэмымкӏэ сэтхэ - "I write (using) with the pencil". In the invertive case the noun has the suffix -ыу (-əw) unlike other dialects that has the suffix -эу (-aw) : * Kfar Kama dialect: Лӏыр баиу хъугъэ ↔ Standard: Лӏыр баеу хъугъэ - "The man become rich". * Kfar Kama dialect: Пшъашъэр нэхь даху къэлъагъо ↔ Standard: Пшъашъэр нахь дахэу къэлъагъо - "The girl looks more beautiful". * Kfar Kama dialect: Кӏалэр псыкӏыу мачъэ ↔ Standard: Кӏалэр псынкӏэу мачъэ - "The boy runs quickly".

Future tense

In this dialect the verb has the suffix ~эт (~at) and in some cases ~ыт (~ət) unlike standard Adyghe (Temirgoy) that has the Suffix ~щт (~ɕt).

Big suffix -фэ

*The standard Adyghe's suffix -шхо /-ʃxʷa/, which means big or mighty, is -фэ /-fˠa/ in Kfar Kama dialect :

Unique words

References

Shapsoug dialect

External links

Body Parts In Kfar Kama Dialect
{{Languages of Israel Languages of Israel Shapsugs Adyghe language