Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
Total No. Of Countries
37
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Regulated By
-
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
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.
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
French and Portuguese Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6221
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
25
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6016
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
ciao
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
grazie
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Come stai?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
buonanotte
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
buonasera
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
buon pomeriggio
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
buongiorno
Please
амритана
Per Favore
Sorry
Амарахь
scusate
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
arrivederci
I Love You
-
Ti amo
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Scusami
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Romanesco
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Lazio
How Many People Speak
106,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Central Italian
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
How Many People Speak
106,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Tuscan
Where They Speak
Turkey
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
How Many People Speak
106,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million78.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.90 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million64.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-14.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Italiano
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Italiano
French Name
abkhaze
italien
German Name
Abchasisch
Italienisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[itaˈljaːno]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Italians
Origin
c. 1650
960 BC
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Romance
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Italian
Language Position
2827
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
it
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
ita
ISO 639 2/B
abk
ita
ISO 639 3
abk
ita
ISO 639 6
abks
itas
Glottocode
abkh1244
ital1282
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAA-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic