Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6229
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
28
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6013
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Moi
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Kiitos
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
амритана
haluta
Sorry
Амарахь
Anteeksi
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Heippa
I Love You
-
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Finland
How Many People Speak
106,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Rauma
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
106,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Turkey
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
106,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million5.40 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Suomi
French Name
abkhaze
finnois
German Name
Abchasisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
ethnic Finns
Origin
c. 1650
1543
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
standard Finnish
Language Position
2822
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
fin
ISO 639 2/B
abk
fin
ISO 639 3
abk
fin
ISO 639 6
abks
fin
Glottocode
abkh1244
finn1318
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
Agglutinative, Synthetic