Eurasia · ISO 639-3 ady · Glottocode adyg1241
West Circassian
West Circassian expands the collection with a language from Eurasia, classified in the Abkhaz-Adyge family and assigned likely Cyrillic in CLDR.
- Language family
- Abkhaz-Adyge
- Likely script
- Cyrillic (Cyrl)
- Source status
- threatened
- Macroarea
- Eurasia
- Source country codes
- IL · JO · RU · SY · TR
- Reference point
- 44.000, 39.330
Open research question
How do speakers of West Circassian describe their linguistic boundaries, relationships to place, and priorities for documentation or revitalisation?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.