Adygea(or Adygeya), one of the seven autonomous republics of Russian Federation, is situated in the northern part of Caucasus. With the 7800 square kilometer's area, the Adygh Republic has a population of 446,000; its rural and urban population is almost equally divided into 242,600 and 207,900 respectively. In the north Caucasus region there are three language families: Ibero- Caucasian, Ataic and Indo- European. The Ibero- Caucasian consists of three groups: Northeast Caucasian group,Northwest Caucasian Group and Central Caucasian. Adyge is one of the Circassian languages and belongs to the Northwest Caucasian group. The other two Circassian languages are Cherkess and Kabardian(Lazarev & Pravikova, 2005). This paper mainly analyzed the sociolinguistic situation of the Republic of Adygea from three perspectives: past, present and future.
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