Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
-
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Korean Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6299
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
25
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6014
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Kana
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
амритана
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Амарахь
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
-
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
106,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Hakata
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
106,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Kansai
Where They Speak
Turkey
kansai
How Many People Speak
106,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %1.90 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million128.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
日本語
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Nihongo
French Name
abkhaze
japonais
German Name
Abchasisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
c. 1650
1185
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Japanese
Language Position
288
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
abk
jpn
ISO 639 3
abk
jpn
ISO 639 6
abks
jpn
Glottocode
abkh1244
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data Available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic