Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Somalia
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Somali Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
6234
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6024
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
akkam
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
амритана
Maaloo
Sorry
Амарахь
naa dhiisi
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
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Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Borana
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
106,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Orma
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Kenya
How Many People Speak
106,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Wata
Where They Speak
Turkey
Kenya
How Many People Speak
106,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
317
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.36 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
abkhaze
galla
German Name
Abchasisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Oromos
Origin
c. 1650
16
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
2891
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ab
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
orm
ISO 639 2/B
abk
orm
ISO 639 3
abk
orm
ISO 639 6
abks
orm
Glottocode
abkh1244
nucl1736
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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