Karachay Balkar New Testament Bible, Karachay, Karachai, Karachayla, Karachaitsy, Karacaylar

KARACHAY-BALKAR Language New Testament and PSALMS! Beautiful book. Complete New Testament and Psalms!Country Russia, Europe Language code KRC Continent Europe Alternate language names KARACHAY, KARACHAI, KARACHAYLA, KARACHAITSY, KARACAYLAR Dialect names BALKAR, KARACHAY Genetic affiliation Altaic, Turkic, Western, Ponto-Caspian Geographical region Karachi-Cherkess AO. Some in USA Population 191,000 mother tongue speakers (97%) out of an ethnic population of 197,000 including 131,000 Karachay, 66,000 Balkar (1979 census) Printings of whole books of Bible 1978 Status Work in progress Remarks As a literary language a common Kar- achay-Balkar language was created. Balkar and Karachay are almost identical. Cyrillic alphabet Total speakers 191,000 Religion Sunni Muslim