Alternate names: East/Upper Circassian, Eastern/Upper Adyghe, Highland Adyghe

Subject heading in IUCAT: “Kabardian language

Language status: 5* (Developing). For more information see Ethnologue language status table

Ethnic population in Russian Federation: 590,000

User population in Russian Federation: 516,000 (36,700 monolinguals)

Total users in all countries: 1,712,000