Karachay-Balkar

Karachay-Balkar
Къарачай-Малкъар/Qarachay-Malqar
Native to	Russia
Region	Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia
Native speakers	400,000
Language family	Altaic (controversial) Turkic Kypchak Kypchak-Cuman Karachay-Balkar
Writing system	Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-2	krc
ISO 639-3	krc

The Karachay-Balkar language (Къарачай-Малкъар /Qarachay-Malqar/) is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay which pronounces two phonemes as /tʃ/ and /ʒ/, and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as /ts/ and /z/.