Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Macedonian language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
6230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
26
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6036
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
амритана
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Амарахь
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
-
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
106,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
106,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Turkey
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
106,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
358
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million7.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Balgarski
French Name
abkhaze
bulgare
German Name
Abchasisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Bulgarian people
Origin
c. 1650
9th Century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2888
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
bul
ISO 639 2/B
abk
bul
ISO 639 3
abk
bul
ISO 639 6
abks
buls
Glottocode
abkh1244
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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