tawça
/tawtʃa/
1. in the highlanders' way, like a highlander — For example, tawda bolsaŋ tawça jaşa 'if you are in the mountains, live like a highlander'.
- tawda bolsaŋ tawça jaşa — if you are in the mountains, live like a highlander
- biz tawça jaşaybız — we live in the highlanders' way
2. in the Karachay-Balkar language, in our language; in Balkar — Literally 'in the highlanders' way'; Karachay writers use it of their own language, as in tawça söleşirge 'speak Karachay-Balkar'. Tenishev and Suyunchev 1989 marks it dialectal, 'in Balkar', and Guzeev 2000 and Guzeev 2003 also gloss it as Balkar.
- Tawça söleşirge — to speak Karachay-Balkar
- Tawça söleşiw — speaking in Karachay-Balkar
- Tawça söleşdim — I spoke in Karachay-Balkar
- Tawça jazama — I write in Karachay-Balkar
- Tawça eki söz aytdı — he said a couple of words in Karachay-Balkar
- Tawça juwab etdi — he answered in Karachay-Balkar
- söleşiw Tawça bardırıldı — the talk was conducted in Karachay-Balkar