around 1830–1850; "1" denotes nine villages resettled from the mountains by General
Grigory Zass; "2" denotes villages whose names are unknown; The area of village concentration in the upper reaches of the
Laba River tributaries is now part of
Krasnodar Krai between
Adygea to the north and
Karachay-Cherkessia to the south|left The Besleney people speak the Besleney sub-dialect () of the
Kabardian Adyghe dialect (East Circassian). However, because the Besleney tribe lived at the center of
Circassia, the Besleney dialect also shares a large number of features with dialects of the
West Adyghe dialect. Like the Adyghe
Shapsug sub-dialect, there exist a palatalized
voiced velar plosive , a palatalized
voiceless velar plosive and a palatalized
velar ejective , which were merged to , and in other Circassian dialects. The Besleney dialect also has an
alveolar lateral ejective affricate , which corresponds to an
alveolar lateral ejective fricative in most other varieties of Circassian. The Besleney dialect has a
voiceless glottal fricative [h] that corresponds to in other Circassian dialects. ==See also==