# WIKITONGUES- Yenal speaking Circassian

This video was recorded by John Kazaklis in Amman, Jordan. Belonging to the Northwest Caucasian language family, the Circassian language group is comprised of the West Circassian language, Adyghe, and the East Circassian language, Kabardian. Adyghe is spoken by approximately 575,000 people and Kabardian is spoken by around 1.6 million people. Yenal is fluent in five Northwest Caucasian languages and dialects, all of which he uses in this video: Shapsug (a Black Sea coast dialect of Adyghe), Bzhedug (a Kuban River dialect of Adyghe), Abzakh (a Adyghe dialect), Karbadian (homeland dialect), and Karbadian (diaspora dialect). There is a strong consensus among the linguistic community that Adyghe and Kabardian are typologically distinct languages; however, the local terms for these languages refer to them as dialects.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2019
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Wikitongues, John Kazaklis
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIKITONGUES-_Yenal_speaking_Circassian.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Wikitongues, John Kazaklis
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/81853694?play=1)