Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
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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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Farsi Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
6233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
28
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6029
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Silaw
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Sipas
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Bayanit bash
Please
амритана
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Амарахь
Bibûre
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
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Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
106,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
106,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Turkey
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
106,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
abkhaze
kurde
German Name
Abchasisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Kurds
Origin
c. 1650
16th century CE
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Kurdish
Language Position
2814
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ab
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
kur
ISO 639 2/B
abk
kur
ISO 639 3
abk
kur
ISO 639 6
abks
kur
Glottocode
abkh1244
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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