Adiga Proverbs- The Fool

Note:
I transliterated the Adiga words like this (matching the Cyrillic):
1) a- a (long a)
2) ы- i (schwa)
3) э- e (short a)
* e- ei /ɛ/
4) y- w (it's either the consonant or indicates a rounded sound)
5) o- we (it's either the consonant with a short s or a rounded sound with a short a)
6) и- y (long e)
7) l- ' (either a glottal stop or indicates ejective sounds)
8) г- g` [similar 2 voiced velar fricative but not quite- like the one in the word Adiga (it doesn't exist in English, Arabic, Russian, Turkish or Hebrew- I don't know what other language has it)
9) гъ- gh (voiced velar fricative - like غ in Arabic or ğ in Turkish)
10) гь- g (like g in English- this sound doesn't exist in most Adiga dialects)
11) гу- gw (rounded g- this one exists in all dialects)
12) ш/щ/шъ- sh ( I transliterated all 3 as one but they are not one. The litter girl pronounces ш & щ the same but щ is lighter than ш but u can hear the difference in шъ, so listen carefully)
13) шъу- shw (I don't know how to call this sound. It has nothing to do with the sound SH but I transcribed it that way because that's how it's written in Cyrillic. It's more like someone is trying to whistle but it doesn't come out)
14) шъо- shwe (some as the above but with a short a)
15) ж/жь/жъ- zh (same as in the case if 'sh', the little girl doesn't differentiate between ж & жь but жь is lighter than ж, but also here you can here the difference in жъ)
16) kl- k'/ch' (in Shapsough that letter is sometimes pronounced as ejective k or as ejective ch- it's only ejective ch in most dialects)
17) лъ- tl (voiceless L- voiceless alveolar lateral fricative)
18) лl- tl' (ejetive voiceless L- ejective voiceless alveolar lateral fricative)
19) къ- q (like the Arabic ق)
20) х- х (voiceless velar fricative)
21) хь- h (voiceless pharyngeal fricative- ح)
22) хъ- xh (/χ/- خ)
23) ц- ts

* If there's a letter followed by w it means it's rounded & if it's followed by ' it means it's ejective & if it's followed by ' & w it means it's both rounded & ejective.

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[halftimeman]

Great stuff, If only they teach that at school, much better education.

[sesetsiku]

True...Maybe they will start doing so...Inshallah. Meanwhile parents can teach their own kids...

[Armador]

The Latin Writing is wrong, We must have the same latin alfabet for Adigabze;) Thanks

[sesetsiku]

I didn't use the official Adyghe Latin Alphabet 'cause not everybody can read it...

[Chell1229]

Это что, типо адыгского языка?

[sesetsiku]

Да

[djadow]

This is gert work. Thank you for posting.

I can only wish u explain when each of these proverbs are said and explained a bit more on how and where they are used.

thank you again. Your work is always appreciated.

[ahmetarsleong]

a woha adyge çaleher

[LisAdiga1]

hahahahaha daylam wdamjagu! i like it a lot! looooool