Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Abkhazia
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
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Derived From
Caucasian languages
  
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Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
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请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Not available
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Bzyb
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Caucasus
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Sadz
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Turkey
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.13 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
Not Available
  
French Name
abkhaze
  
chinois
  
German Name
Abchasisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
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Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
  
Han
  
Origin
c. 1650
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ab
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
abk
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
abk
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
abk
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
abks
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
abkh1244
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Abkhaz and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Abkhaz and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Abkhaz and Chinese language. Abkhaz word for "Hello" is Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Abkhaz Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Abkhaz vs Chinese Difficulty
The Abkhaz vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Abkhaz Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Abkhaz and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Abkhaz and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Abkhaz is 27 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.