Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
35
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
-
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6226
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
224
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
6023
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
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
амритана
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Амарахь
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
-
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
106,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Wu
Where They Speak
Caucasus
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
106,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Yue
Where They Speak
Turkey
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
106,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
abkhaze
chinois
German Name
Abchasisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Han
Origin
c. 1650
1250 BC
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Chinese
Language Position
281
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
zho
ISO 639 2/B
abk
chi
ISO 639 3
abk
zho
ISO 639 6
abks
zho
Glottocode
abkh1244
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating