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Kfar Kama Adyghe dialect
Dialect of Adyghe spoken in Kfar Kama From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kfar Kama dialect (Adyghe: Кфар Камэм ишапсыгъэбзэ) is a subdialect of the Shapsug dialect of Adyghe spoken by the villagers of the village Kfar Kama in Israel.
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The Kfar Kama dialect shares a large number of features with other Shapsug dialects such as dropping and not pronouncing н [n], м [m] and р [r] in some cases, and having the consonants сӏ [sʼ], гь [ɡʲ], кь [kʲ], кӏь [kʲʼ] and чъу [t͡ɕʷ] that correspond to цӏ [t͡sʼ], дж [d͡ʒ], ч [t͡ʃ], кӏ [t͡ʃʼ] and цу [t͡sʷ] in other Adyghe dialects (e.g. Abzakh, Temirgoy and Bzhedug).[1][2][3][4][5] Also like other Shapsug dialects the Retroflex affricates consonants чъ [ʈʂ] and чӏ [ʈʂʼ] (that exist in Chemguy and Bzhedug dialects) became ч [t͡ʃ] and кӏ [t͡ʃʼ] in the Kfar Kama dialect.[6] Unlike some other Shaspug dialects the Kfar Kama dialect does not have the aspirated consonants.
The consonant [h]
- This dialect has a voiceless glottal fricative [h] in some words that correspond to [d͡ʒ] in other diaelcts :
Uvular consonants
In some cases къ [q] and къу [qʷ] became хъ [χ] and хъу [χʷ] :
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Nouns
In the instrumental case the noun has the suffix -мгьэ (-mɡʲa) or -гьэ (-gʲa) unlike other dialects (e.g. Abzakh and Temirgoy) that has the suffix -мкIэ (-mt͡ʃa) or -кIэ (-t͡ʃa) :
- Kfar Kama dialect: Кӏалэр Адыгэбзэгьэ мэгущаӏэ ↔ Standard: Кӏалэр Адыгэбзэкӏэ мэгущаӏэ - "The boy speaks (using) Adyghe language".
- Kfar Kama dialect: Къэлэмымгьэ сэтхэ ↔ Standard: Къэлэмымкӏэ сэтхэ - "I write (using) with the pencil".
In the invertive case the noun has the suffix -ыу (-əw) unlike other dialects that has the suffix -эу (-aw) :
- Kfar Kama dialect: Лӏыр баиу хъугъэ ↔ Standard: Лӏыр баеу хъугъэ - "The man become rich".
- Kfar Kama dialect: Пшъашъэр нэхь даху къэлъагъо ↔ Standard: Пшъашъэр нахь дахэу къэлъагъо - "The girl looks more beautiful".
- Kfar Kama dialect: Кӏалэр псыкӏыу мачъэ ↔ Standard: Кӏалэр псынкӏэу мачъэ - "The boy runs quickly".
Future tense
In this dialect the verb has the suffix ~эт (~at) and in some cases ~ыт (~ət) unlike standard Adyghe (Temirgoy) that has the Suffix ~щт (~ɕt).
Big suffix -фэ
- The standard Adyghe's suffix -шхо /-ʃxʷa/, which means big or mighty, is -фэ /-fˠa/ in Kfar Kama dialect :
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