Hakuchi Adyghe dialect


Hakuchi is a variety of the Shapsug sub-dialect of West Adyghe dialect of the Adyghe language spoken in Turkey.
The dialect is phonologically peculiar when compared to the other Adyghe sub-dialects. Its lexicon and consonantal system are substantially affected by the Ubykh language, the first language of many Hakuchi speakers before its death. Hakuchi Adyghe is one of the most divergent dialects from the literary dialect of Adyghe.

Phonology

The Hakuchi has an uvular ejective and a labialized uvular ejective that correspond to West Adyghe and Kabardian Adyghe glottal stop and labialized glottal stop .