The Circassian app has a Translate screen that works between English and Adyghe in both directions: type English and get Adyghe, or paste Adyghe and read it in English. Russian and Turkish work the same way. Under every search sits an Adyghe dictionary, with audio for the words the app’s lessons teach, so single words never depend on a machine’s guess.
Below: how to use it, 18 everyday phrases with their Adyghe translation and audio, where the dictionary comes from, and when to ask a person instead.
How to translate English to Adyghe in the app
- Download the Circassian app and pick Adyghe as your course. The translator then opens with Adyghe as the target language and your own language as the source.
- Open Translate from the bar at the bottom of the Learn screen, or tap the translate button at the top of Messages.
- Type or paste your text. The Adyghe dictionary results appear under it at once, even without an account.
- For whole sentences, sign in with a free account. Results into Adyghe carry the Tarmash logo, the engine that makes them; other results carry a “beta” label.
- To go from Adyghe to English, tap the swap button, or set the source to Adyghe or to auto-detect.
Google Translate cannot help here: its list of 249 languages, checked on October 11, 2026, has Abkhaz, Avar, Chechen and Ossetian, but neither Kabardian nor Adyghe.
18 everyday phrases in Adyghe, with audio
These come from the app’s audio course, whose scripts a native speaker of Adyghe reviewed. Tap the speaker to hear each one; the audio is the app’s own.
| Phrase | Adyghe |
|---|---|
| Hello. | СэламSelam |
| Good morning. | Уипчэдыжь шIу.Wipchedyzh sh'u. |
| How are you? | Сыдэу ущыт?Sydeu ushchyt? |
| I’m well, and you? | Сыпсау, оры?Sypsau, ory? |
| Goodbye! | ХъяркIэ!Khyark'e! |
| What’s your name? | УицIэр сыд?Uits'er syd? |
| My name is Madina. | Сэ сцIэр Мадинэ.Se sts'er madine. |
| Pleased to meet you. | Сигуапэ хъугъэ.Sigwape khwghe. |
| Where are you from? | Тыдэ укъикIырэ?Tyde uqik'yre? |
| Do you speak Circassian? | АдыгабзэкIэ угущаIа?Adəgabzek'e wgushcha'a? |
| I speak a little. | ТIэкIу сэгущыIэ.T'ek'u segushchy'e. |
| I don’t understand. | КъызгурэIорэпQyzgureIorep |
| Speak slowly. | Жъажъэу къэгущыIэ.Zhazheu qegushchy'e. |
| Thank you. | ОпсэуOpseu |
| Please. | сыолъэIуsyolheIw |
| Excuse me. | къысфэгъэгъуqəsfegheghu |
| Welcome! | Къеблагъ!Qyeblagh! |
| Do you want tea? | Щай уфая?Shchay ufaya? |
More in the Circassian phrasebook, with Kabardian beside every line.
The Adyghe dictionary under the translator
The Adyghe dictionary in the app has 3,499 entries from dovlet.info. Each one has an English, a Russian and a Turkish meaning, and many show the stressed vowel and other forms of the word. Words that the app’s lessons teach have audio, with a listen button on the row.
Adyghe or Kabardian: make sure you need this one
Circassian has two written standards. Adyghe (West Circassian) is the language of the Republic of Adygea, where it is an official language beside Russian; the Abzakh, Shapsug, Bzhedug, Temirgoy and Hatuqay speak West Circassian dialects. The two differ from the first lesson, in words, sounds and spelling, so an Adyghe translation will not read right to someone who speaks Kabardian. Not sure which one your family speaks? The Circassian tribes page shows which dialect each tribe speaks, and the page on the difference between Kabardian and Adyghe shows them side by side. For Kabardian, use the Kabardian translator.
Honest limits: when to ask a person
Machine translation for Adyghe is new, and it makes mistakes, especially with long or unusual sentences. For anything that matters, like a tattoo, a wedding speech, a gravestone or an official document, ask a native speaker to check it. The app’s community chats are full of Circassians from Turkey, Jordan, Russia and beyond.
Typing Adyghe on a phone? The app writes the palochka, the letter that looks like a capital I, as a Latin capital I, so you can type it with the keyboard you already have. And if you would rather understand Adyghe than decode it, the Adyghe course teaches the words the translator gives you.
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Adyghe translator: frequently asked questions
Is there an English to Adyghe translator?
Yes. The Translate screen of the Circassian app for iPhone and Android translates English, Russian and Turkish into Adyghe and back, with an Adyghe dictionary of 3,499 entries.
Can I translate Adyghe to English?
Yes. Set the source language to Adyghe, or to auto-detect, and the target to English.
Does Google Translate have Adyghe?
No. On October 11, 2026, Google Translate listed 249 languages, including Abkhaz, Avar, Chechen and Ossetian, but not Adyghe or Kabardian.
Is the Adyghe translator free?
Yes. Dictionary lookups work without an account; translating whole sentences needs a free account.
What engine translates into Adyghe?
Tarmash, a machine translator made for Circassian. Every result into Adyghe shows its logo, so you always know a machine made it.
How accurate is the Adyghe translation?
Dictionary words are far more reliable than machine-translated sentences. Sentences can be wrong: have a native speaker check anything important.
Sources
- Circassian app, version 5.9.0 (October 2026): Translate screen (src/components/TranslateModal.tsx: languages, defaults, sign-in rule, Tarmash logo, beta label), entry points on the Learn and Messages screens, translation routing (all Circassian results come from Tarmash).
- Dictionaries in the app, counted by running the app’s code on October 11, 2026: Kabardian 24,190 entries (a scanned Kabardian–Russian dictionary), Adyghe 3,499 entries (dovlet.info), 2,216 Kabardian lesson phrases. The phone screen shows the app’s real dictionary results for the query.
- Phrases: the app’s audio course (scripts reviewed by a native speaker of each dialect), as in the Circassian phrasebook.
- Google Translate’s language list (translate.googleapis.com, translate_a/l), read October 11, 2026: 249 languages, no Kabardian or Adyghe.
- Tarmash, the Circassian machine translation engine the app uses.
- Where each dialect is spoken and which tribes speak it: Wikipedia, “Kabardian language”, “Adyghe language” and the tribes’ articles, as cited on the Circassian tribes page.
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