"Circassian /s\u0259r\u02C8k\u00E6si\u0259n/, also known as Cherkess /t\u0283\u0259r\u02C8k\u025Bs/, is a dialect continuum of the North Caucasus. There are two Circassian languages as defined by their literary standards, Adyghe (\u041A\u04C0\u0430\u0445\u044B\u0431\u0437\u044D, West Circassian), with half a million speakers, and Kabardian (\u041A\u044A\u044D\u0431\u044D\u0440\u0434\u0435\u0439\u0431\u0437\u044D, East Circassian), with a million. The spoken languages, however, merge, with geographically intermediate dialects intelligible to both standards."@en . . . .