Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
-
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Latvian
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6232
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6020
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Sveiki
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Ačiū
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Labanakt
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Laba diena
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Labas rytas
Please
амритана
Prašom
Sorry
Амарахь
atsiprašau
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Ate
I Love You
-
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
106,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
106,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Curonian
Where They Speak
Turkey
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
106,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
abkhaze
lituanien
German Name
Abchasisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Lithuanians
Origin
c. 1650
c. 1503
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Lithuanian
Language Position
2844
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
lit
ISO 639 2/B
abk
lit
ISO 639 3
abk
lit
ISO 639 6
abks
lit
Glottocode
abkh1244
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data Available
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic