Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
-
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Dutch Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6232
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
215
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6017
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
hallo
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Dankie
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
goeie nag
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
goeie more
Please
амритана
asseblief
Sorry
Амарахь
jammer
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Totsiens
I Love You
-
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
-
How Many People Speak
106,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Caucasus
-
How Many People Speak
106,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Turkey
Namibia
How Many People Speak
106,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-10.30 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Cape Dutch
French Name
abkhaze
afrikaans
German Name
Abchasisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Afrikaners
Origin
c. 1650
17th Century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
afr
ISO 639 2/B
abk
afr
ISO 639 3
abk
afr
ISO 639 6
abks
afrs
Glottocode
abkh1244
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic