Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
36
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6231
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
27
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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
alo
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
multumesc
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
ce mai faci?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
noapte Buna
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
buna Ziua
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
bună Dimineața
Please
амритана
Vă Rog
Sorry
Амарахь
scuze
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
La revedere
I Love You
-
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
106,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
106,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
Turkey
Croatia
How Many People Speak
106,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Română
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
abkhaze
roumain; moldave
German Name
Abchasisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Romanians
Origin
c. 1650
1521
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Romanian
Language Position
2836
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
ron
ISO 639 2/B
abk
rum
ISO 639 3
abk
ron
ISO 639 6
abks
ron
Glottocode
abkh1244
roma1327
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic