Circassian languages
The Circassian languages or Adyghe-Cabardian languages refer to a group of languages belonging to the Northwest Caucasian language family, originating from the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Family languages
This family of languages includes two subgroups: Western or Adygee and Eastern or Kabardian.
The first, which is referred to as adigué and which is made up of the dialects: bzheduj (the most complex in consonantal terms, with 66 phonemes), shapsugh, temirgoy and abadkej (abzajo). The latter was the predominant one in the Caucasia before 1864 and perhaps the most widespread of all the Diaspora dialects, although today only a small town, Shovgenovskij, remains in the Caucasus.
Eastern Circassian, better known as Kabardian, has two dialects: Kabardian itself, the phonologically simplest of the Northwest Caucasian family (45 consonantal phonemes in its literary form) and Bes(le)ney. The system used to write the Kabardian is the Cyrillic alphabet plus the letter I and the order of the sentence is subject, object and verb.
Currently this set of languages is used in countries like Georgia and other former Soviet republics as well as small communities in Turkey, Jordan and Syria.