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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
6257
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
27
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6050
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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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)
Sawubona
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
unjani
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
амритана
Ngiyacela
Sorry
Амарахь
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
bye
I Love You
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Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
106,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
106,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Turkey
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
106,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million12.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
abkhaze
zoulou
German Name
Abchasisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Zulu people
Origin
c. 1650
19
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2887
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
zul
ISO 639 2/B
abk
zul
ISO 639 3
abk
zul
ISO 639 6
abks
zul
Glottocode
abkh1244
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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