Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
28
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6020
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
您好
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
谢谢
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
你好吗？
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
晚安
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
下午好
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
早上好
Please
амритана
请
Sorry
Амарахь
遗憾
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
再见
I Love You
-
我爱你
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
106,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
106,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Sadz
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Turkey
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
106,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
abkhaze
cantonais
German Name
Abchasisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Han Chinese
Origin
c. 1650
17th century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
281
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ab
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
yue
ISO 639 2/B
abk
yue
ISO 639 3
abk
No data available
ISO 639 6
abks
yue
Glottocode
abkh1244
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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