Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
33
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Armenian
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6224
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
27
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6017
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
амритана
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Амарахь
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
-
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Greece
How Many People Speak
106,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Griko
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Italy
How Many People Speak
106,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Turkey
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
106,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
325
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
abkhaze
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Abchasisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
c. 1650
1500 BC
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Modern Greek
Language Position
2874
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
ell
ISO 639 2/B
abk
gre
ISO 639 3
abk
ell
ISO 639 6
abks
ells
Glottocode
abkh1244
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data Available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic