Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Hindi
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6248
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6036
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Devanagari
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)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
амритана
कृपया
Sorry
Амарахь
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
-
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Doteli
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
106,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Caucasus
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
106,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Turkey
Nepal
How Many People Speak
106,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
abkhaze
népalais
German Name
Abchasisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
c. 1650
19 BC
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Nepali
Language Position
2859
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ab
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
nep
ISO 639 2/B
abk
nep
ISO 639 3
abk
npi
ISO 639 6
abks
nep
Glottocode
abkh1244
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative