| Hakuchi | |
| Nativename: | Adyghe; Adygei: Къарацхаибзэ |
| States: | Turkey |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Caucasian |
| Fam1: | Northwest Caucasian |
| Fam2: | Circassian |
| Fam3: | Adyghe |
| Fam4: | Shapsug |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | xaku1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Xakuchi |
| Pronunciation: | pronounced as /ady/ |
| Ethnicity: | Hakuchey |
Hakuchi (ady|ХьакӀуцубзэ pronounced as /ady/ or Adyghe; Adygei: Къарацхаибзэ pronounced as /ady/ in Hakuchi Adyghe) is a variety of the Shapsug sub-dialect of West Adyghe dialect of the Adyghe language spoken in Turkey. It is considered to be the most archaic variety of Adyghe.
Since the Hakuchi are considered an isolated Shapsug clan, their dialect differs little from that of the Shapsug dialect. It is also believed that the Hakuchis are a blend of various Circassian tribes: Shapsug, Ubykh, Abdzakh and others. This is why the Hakuchi dialect has some interesting phonetics in it.
The Hakuchi has an uvular ejective [qʼ] and a labialized uvular ejective [qʷʼ][1] that correspond to West Adyghe and Kabardian Adyghe glottal stop [ʔ] and labialized glottal stop [ʔʷ].
| Word | Hakuchi dialect | West Adyghe | Kabardian | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPA | Cyrillic | IPA | Cyrillic | IPA | Cyrillic | |||
| two | [tʼqʷʼə] | тӀыкъӀу | tʼqʷʼɜ | [tʷʼə] | тӀу | [tʼəw] | тӀу | |
| to say | [qʷʼan] | къӀон (къӀуэн) | qʼɜ | [ʔʷan] | Ӏон | [ʔʷan] | Ӏуэн | |
| hand | [qʼa] | къӀэ | q'ɐp'ɜ | [ʔa] | Ӏэ | [ʔa] | Ӏэ | |
| table | [qʼaːna] | къӀанэ | ʂɜ'nɨ | [ʔaːna] | Ӏанэ | [ʔana] | Ӏэнэ | |
| hat | [paːqʷʼa] | пакъӀо (пакъӀуэ) | bˤɜ'qˤʼɨ | [paːʔʷa] | паӀо | [pəʔa] | пыIэ | |