Countries
Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
-
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6229
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6017
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
e dupe
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
e kaasan
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
e kaaro
Please
амритана
Jowo
Sorry
Амарахь
binu
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
bye
I Love You
-
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialects
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
106,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Ede
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
106,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Turkey
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
106,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million28.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
abkhaze
yoruba
German Name
Abchasisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Yoruba people
History
Origin
c. 1650
4 BC
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Yorùbá
Language Position
2849
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ab
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
yor
ISO 639 2/B
abk
yor
ISO 639 3
abk
yor
ISO 639 6
abks
yor
Glottocode
abkh1244
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating