Hoehlig Monika, Prof. Dr.[1] Learning the Adyghe language presents a special challenge for non-native speakers. Adyghe is distinguished by having an especially large number of phonemes, mainly due to the consonant system. For the Adyghe literary language, Rogava and Kerasheva [1, 56] distinguish 55 consonant phonemes. The multitude of consonants in Adyghe results from the …