Hakuchi dialect

 ( Adyghe Language ) 

Hakuchi ( or Къарацхаибзэ in Hakuchi Adyghe) is a variety of the Shapsugs sub-dialect of West Circassian of the Adyghe language spoken in Turkey. It is considered to be the most archaic variety of Adyghe.

Since the Hakuchey are considered an isolated Shapsug clan, their dialect differs little from that of the Shapsug dialect. It is also believed that the Hakuchis are a blend of various Circassian tribes: Shapsug, Ubykh, Abdzakh and others. This is why the Hakuchi dialect has some interesting phonetics in it.

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Phonology The Hakuchi has an uvular ejective qʼ and a Labialization qʷʼ adygeya-republic phonetic changes Ларингализация that correspond to West Circassian and Kabardian Adyghe glottal stop ʔ and labialized glottal stop ʔʷ.

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See also

• Ubykh language
• Circassian languages
• Adyghe language
• Abzakh dialect
• Bzhedug dialect
• Shapsug dialect
• Kfar Kama Adyghe dialect
• Kabardian language
• Besleney Kabardian dialect

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

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