Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6253
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6043
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Molo
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Unjani
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Molo
Please
амритана
Ndicela
Sorry
Амарахь
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
-
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
106,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Thembu
Where They Speak
Caucasus
South Africa
How Many People Speak
106,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Turkey
South Africa
How Many People Speak
106,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
abkhaze
xhosa
German Name
Abchasisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
c. 1650
16th Century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
isiXhosa
Language Position
2821
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
xho
ISO 639 2/B
abk
xho
ISO 639 3
abk
xho
ISO 639 6
abks
xho
Glottocode
abkh1244
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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