Besleney

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Besleney
Беслъэнейхэр
The tamga of the Kanoqo princely dynasty of the Besleney and the Circassian flag
Languages
Circassian (Besleney Kabardian dialect), Turkish, Russian
Religion
Islam (Sunni Islam)
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The Besleney (Circassian: Беслъэней, Kabardian pronunciation: [basɬənəj]Category:Pages with Kabardian IPA; Russian: БесленеевцыCategory:Articles containing Russian-language text) are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes, representing one of the twelve stars on the green-and-gold Circassian flag.[1] By character, culture and language, the Besleney are closest to Kabardians.[2] The noble families of the Besleney were Kanoko and Shaloho, ancestors of Kabardian Prince Beslan, (the son of legendary Prince Inal),[3] who established his own tribe of the same name.

Population

The majority of the Besleney live in the valley of Bolshaya and Malaya Laba Rivers and on the bank of Urup in the Russian Republics of Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Krai and Adygea.[4] They also extend to the valleys of Chetem, Fars, Psefir, Kuban (Western Circassia).

History

Language

Besleney villages of Circassia around 1830–1850; "1" denotes nine villages resettled from the mountains by General Grigory Zass; "2" denotes villages whose names are unknown; The area of village concentration in the upper reaches of the Laba River tributaries is now part of Krasnodar Krai between Adygea to the north and Karachay-Cherkessia to the south

The Besleney people speak the Besleney sub-dialect (Adyghe: БэслъыныйбзэCategory:Articles containing Adyghe-language text) of the Kabardian Adyghe dialect (East Circassian). However, because the Besleney tribe lived at the center of Circassia, the Besleney dialect also shares a large number of features with dialects of the West Adyghe dialect. Like the Adyghe Shapsug sub-dialect, there exist a palatalized voiced velar plosive [ɡʲ]Category:Pages with plain IPA, a palatalized voiceless velar plosive [kʲ]Category:Pages with plain IPA and a palatalized velar ejective [kʲʼ]Category:Pages with plain IPA, which were merged to [d͡ʒ]Category:Pages with plain IPA, [t͡ʃ]Category:Pages with plain IPA and [t͡ʃʼ]Category:Pages with plain IPA in other Circassian dialects.[5] The Besleney dialect also has an alveolar lateral ejective affricate [t͡ɬʼ]Category:Pages with plain IPA, which corresponds to an alveolar lateral ejective fricative [ɬʼ]Category:Pages with plain IPA in most other varieties of Circassian.[6] The Besleney dialect has a voiceless glottal fricative [h] that corresponds to [x] in other Circassian dialects.[7]

Meaning Besleney sub-dialect Standard Kabardian Standard Adyghe Shapsug sub-dialect
Cyrillic IPA Cyrillic IPA Cyrillic IPA Cyrillic IPA
horse чъы [t͡ʂɘ] шы [ʃɘ] шы [ʃɘ] шы [ʃɘ]
sister чъыпхъу [t͡ʂɘpχʷ] шыпхъу [ʃɘpχʷ] шыпхъу [ʃɘpχʷ] шыпхъу [ʃɘpχʷ]
wedding нысачъэ [nɘsaːt͡ʂɐ] нысашэ [nɘsaːʃɐ] нысашэ [nɘsaːʃɐ] нысашэ [nɘsaːʃɐ]
day махуэ [maːxʷɐ] махуэ [maːxʷɐ] мафэ [maːfɐ] мафэ [maːfɐ]
black фӏыцӏэ [fʼɘt͡sʼɐ] фӏыцӏэ [fʼɘt͡sʼɐ] шӏуцӏэ [ʃʷʼɘt͡sʼɐ] шӏусӏэ [ʃʷʼɘsʼɐ]
shirt, dress гьанэ [ɡʲaːnɐ] джанэ [d͡ʒaːnɐ] джанэ [d͡ʒaːnɐ] гьанэ [ɡʲaːnɐ]
tree джыг [d͡ʒɘɣ] жыг [ʒɘɣ] чъыгы [t͡ʂɘɡɘ] чъыгы [t͡ʃɘɣɘ]
four птлӏы [pt͡ɬʼɘː] плӏы [pɬʼɘː] плӏы [pɬʼɘː] плӏы [pɬʼɘː]
man тлӏы [t͡ɬʼɘː] лӏы [ɬʼɘː] лӏы [ɬʼɘː] лӏы [ɬʼɘː]
chicken гьэд [gɐd] джэд [d͡ʒɐd] чэты [t͡ʃɐtɘ] кьэт [kʲɐt]
tail, seed кӏьэ [kʲʼɐ] кӏэ [t͡ʃʼɐ] кӏэ [t͡ʃʼɐ] кӏьэ [kʲʼɐ]
young man, boy кӏалэ [t͡ʃʼaːlɐ] щӏалэ [ɕʼaːɮɐ] кӏалэ [t͡ʃʼaːɮɐ] кӏалэ [t͡ʃʼaːlɐ]
new кӏэ [t͡ʃʼɐ] щӏэ [ɕʼɐ] кӏэ [t͡ʃʼɐ] кӏэ [t͡ʃʼɐ]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Circassians". Adiga-home.net. 2010. Archived from the original on August 20, 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2016. The 12 Circassian tribes: Abadzeh Besleney Bzhedug Yegeruqay Zhaney Kabarday Mamheg Natuhay Temirgoy Ubyh Shapsug Hatukay. The twelve stars on the Adyghe Flag also refers to the twelve tribes.Category:CS1: unfit URL
  2. ↑ John Colarusso. A Grammar of the Kabardian Language University of Calgary Press, 1992. p. 12. ISBN 9780919813991 "This highly divergent dialect..."
  3. ↑ Ярослав, Валентинович Пилипчук. "ЧЕРКЕСЫ МЕЖДУ ТЮРКАМИ И РУССКИМИ" (PDF). ELMİ İŞ (Beynəlxalq elmi jurnal). 11 (60). Humanitar və sosial elmlər.
  4. ↑ James Stuart Olson, et al., eds. "Adyghe".An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. Greenwood Publishing, 1994. p. 15. ISBN 9780313274978 "The Beslenei (Beslenej) are located between the upper Urup and Khozdya rivers, and along the Middle Laba River, in the western reaches of the North Caucasus."
  5. ↑ Консонантная система уляпского говора в сопоставлении с аналогами других диалектов адыгских языков (in Russian)Category:Articles with Russian-language sources (ru)
  6. ↑ UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive - Recording Details for Kabardian Baslanei dialect. In the first word list called kbd_word-list_1970_01.html the words "man" and "quarter" are pronounced as /t͡ɬʼə/Category:Pages with plain IPA and /pt͡ɬʼaːna/Category:Pages with plain IPA compare to Standard Kabardian /ɬʼə/Category:Pages with plain IPA and /pɬʼaːna/Category:Pages with plain IPA
  7. ↑ Консонантная система уляпского говора в сопоставлении с аналогами других диалектов адыгских языков (in Russian)Category:Articles with Russian-language sources (ru)
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