Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
25
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6028
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
амритана
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Амарахь
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
-
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
106,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Kartli
How Many People Speak
106,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Turkey
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
106,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
abkhaze
géorgien
German Name
Abchasisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Georgians
Origin
c. 1650
5th Century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
-
Southern
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Modern Georgian
Language Position
28120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ab
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
kat
ISO 639 2/B
abk
geo
ISO 639 3
abk
kat
ISO 639 6
abks
kat
Glottocode
abkh1244
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic