| Tersky District Терский район(Russian) Тэрч къедзыгъуэ (Kabardian) Терк район (Karachay-Balkar) | |
|---|---|
 Location of Tersky District in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic | |
| Coordinates: 43°29′N44°08′E / 43.483°N 44.133°E Coordinates: 43°29′N44°08′E / 43.483°N 44.133°E | |
 Dzhulat Malokabardinsky channel, Tersky District | |
| Location | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Kabardino-Balkar Republic [1] |
| Administrative structure (as of April 2014) | |
| Administrative center | town of Terek [1] |
| Inhabited localities: [1] | |
| Cities/towns | 1 |
| Rural localities | 26 |
| Municipal structure (as of April 2014) | |
| Municipally incorporated as | Tersky Municipal District [2] |
| Municipal divisions: [2] | |
| Urban settlements | 1 |
| Rural settlements | 17 |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 893.12 km2 (344.84 sq mi)[ citation needed ] |
| Population (2010 Census) | 51,220 inhabitants [3] |
| • Urban | 37.4% |
| • Rural | 62.6% |
| Density | 57.35/km2 (148.5/sq mi) [4] |
| Time zone | MSK (UTC+03:00) [5] |
| Official website | |
| Tersky District on WikiCommons | |
| 2010 Census | 51,220 [3] |
|---|---|
| 2002 Census | 52,976 [6] |
| 1989 Census | 46,245 [7] |
| 1979 Census | 42,814 [8] |
Tersky District (Russian : Те́рский райо́н; Kabardian : Тэрч къедзыгъуэ; Karachay-Balkar : Терк район) is an administrative [1] and a municipal [2] district (raion), one of the ten in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia. It is located in the east of the republic. The area of the district is 893.12 square kilometers (344.84 sq mi).[ citation needed ] Its administrative center is the town of Terek. [1] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 51,220, with the population of Terek accounting for 37.4% of that number. [3]
Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely used throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was the de facto language of the Soviet Union until its dissolution on 25 December 1991. Although, nowadays, nearly three decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia, the rise of state-specific varieties of this language tends to be strongly denied in Russia, in line with the Russian World ideology.
Kabardian, also known as Kabardino-Cherkess (къэбэрдей-черкесыбзэ) or East Circassian, is a Northwest Caucasian language closely related to the Adyghe language. It is spoken mainly in parts of the North Caucasus republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia and in Turkey, Jordan and Syria. It has 47 or 48 consonant phonemes, of which 22 or 23 are fricatives, depending upon whether one counts as phonemic, but it has only 3 phonemic vowels. It is one of very few languages to possess a clear phonemic distinction between ejective affricates and ejective fricatives.
The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia, European Russia, as well as by an immigrant population in Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay-Baksan-Chegem, which pronounces two phonemes as and, and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and. The modern Karachay-Balkar written language is based on the Karachay-Baksan-Chegem dialect. The language is closely related to Kumyk.
