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Name: Adyghe

Alternate Names: Adygey; West Circassian; Circassian; Cherkes; Kjax; Lower Circassian; Kiakh; Adygei; Adyguéen (in French); Adiga (in Spanish); Abydh

Spoken in: USA, Australia, Iraq, Syria, France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Egypt, Macedonia

Number of speakers: 125,000 in Russian Federation (1993 UBS). Population total all countries: 499,300. Ethnic population: 128,528 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 300000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 499180 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: ady

Code Authority: ISO 639-3

Code Standard: SIL

Families: North West Caucasian

Parent Subgroup: Circassian (circ)

Child Dialects: Shapsug; Sapsug; Adyghe (Shapsugh) (ady-sha) Natuzaj; Natukhai (ady-nat) Abadzex; Abadzeg; Abadekh; Adyghe; Adyghe (Abzakh) (ady-aba) Xakuchi (ady-xak) Bezhedukh; Bzedux; Chemgui; Bezhehux-Temirgoi; Bzhedug; Temirgoj; Adyghe (Temirgoy) (ady-bez)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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