Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland
Speaking Continents
Europe
Antartica, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
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Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish 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.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Norwegian and Danish Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6229
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
29
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6018
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)
hej
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
tacka dig
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
hur mår du
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
godnatt
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
god kväll
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
god morgon
Please
амритана
vänligen
Sorry
Амарахь
ledsen
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
hej då
I Love You
-
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Dialects
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Gabon
How Many People Speak
106,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Dialects
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Georgia
How Many People Speak
106,000.0078,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Dialects
Where They Speak
Turkey
France
How Many People Speak
106,000.0096,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
379
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million15.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million8.70 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)
Svenska
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Ruotsi, Svenska
French Name
abkhaze
suédois
German Name
Abchasisch
Schwedisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Origin
c. 1650
13th Century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Swedish
Language Position
2889
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
sv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
swe
ISO 639 2/B
abk
swe
ISO 639 3
abk
swe
ISO 639 6
abks
swe
Glottocode
abkh1244
swed1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-AAA-ck to -cw
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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