Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
39
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
-
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
25
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6025
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, 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)
bok
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
hvala
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
kako si
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
laku noć
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
dobar dan
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
dobro jutro
Please
амритана
molim
Sorry
Амарахь
Oprostite
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Doviđenja
I Love You
-
Volim te
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Croatia
How Many People Speak
106,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Croatia
How Many People Speak
106,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
106,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
379
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %89.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Hrvatski
French Name
abkhaze
croate
German Name
Abchasisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Croats
Origin
c. 1650
9th century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
2823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
abk
hrv
ISO 639 3
abk
hrv
ISO 639 6
abks
hrv
Glottocode
abkh1244
croa1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic