Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
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National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
26
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
6022
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
амритана
будь ласк
Sorry
Амарахь
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
-
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Podillian
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
106,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Volynian
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
106,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Steppe
Where They Speak
Turkey
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
106,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
abkhaze
ukrainien
German Name
Abchasisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Ukrainians
Origin
c. 1650
1561
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2826
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
abk
ukr
ISO 639 3
abk
ukr
ISO 639 6
abks
ukr
Glottocode
abkh1244
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic