Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
-
Norwegian Language 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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6229
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
29
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6020
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
hallo
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
takk
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
god natt
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
god morgen
Please
амритана
Vær så snill
Sorry
Амарахь
unnskyld
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
ha det
I Love You
-
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
106,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Sogn
How Many People Speak
106,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Turkey
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
106,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million5.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Norsk
French Name
abkhaze
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Abchasisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Norwegians
Origin
c. 1650
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2818
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ab
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
nor
ISO 639 2/B
abk
nor
ISO 639 3
abk
nor
ISO 639 6
abks
nor
Glottocode
abkh1244
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional