Besleney dialect

Besleney
Besleney
Beslenei, Beslenej
	"Besleney dialect" written in the Cyrillic, the ABX Latin and the now-defunct Perso-Arabic scripts.
Native to	Turkey
Ethnicity	Circassians Besleney;
Language family	Northwest Caucasian Circassian East Circassian (Kabardian) Besleney; ; ;
Official status
Official language in	Besleney Principality (historically)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	kbd-bes
Glottolog	None

The Besleney dialect (Beslenej, Adyghe: Беслъэнэибзэ; Kabardian: Беслъэнеибзэ) is a dialect of the East Circassian language, spoken by the Besleney subgroup of Circassians. However, because the Besleney tribe lived at the center of Circassia, the Besleney dialect also shares a large number of features with dialects of Western Circassian and functions as a transitional linguistic link between the West Circassian (Adyghe) and East Circassian (Kabardian) languages.