Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
-
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Romanian
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6236
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
27
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6029
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Përshëndetje
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Si jeni?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
natën e mirë
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
mirëdita
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
mirëmengjes
Please
амритана
Ju lutem
Sorry
Амарахь
Me fal
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
mirupafshim
I Love You
-
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Më falni
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
106,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
106,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Turkey
Italy
How Many People Speak
106,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-3.60 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Shqip
French Name
abkhaze
albanais
German Name
Abchasisch
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Albanians
Origin
c. 1650
1462 AD
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Albanian
Language Position
2814
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
abk
alb
ISO 639 3
abk
sqi
ISO 639 6
abks
sqi
Glottocode
abkh1244
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data Available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic