Countries
Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Total No. Of Countries
310
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Portugal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Regulated By
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Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Spanish and Galician Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6223
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
29
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6019
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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Greetings
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Olá
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
obrigado
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Como você está?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
boa noite
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
boa Noite
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
boa Tarde
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
bom Dia
Please
амритана
Por Favor
Sorry
Амарахь
pesaroso
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
tchau
I Love You
-
Eu te amo
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
desculpe me
Dialects
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Brazilian Portuguese
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Brazil
How Many People Speak
106,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
European Portuguese
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Portugal
How Many People Speak
106,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Where They Speak
Turkey
Daman and Diu
How Many People Speak
106,000.004,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
326
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million231.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %3.27 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million216.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Português
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Português
French Name
abkhaze
portugais
German Name
Abchasisch
Portugiesisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Portuguese people or portugueses
History
Origin
c. 1650
3rd Century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Romance
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Medieval Galician
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Portuguese
Language Position
286
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Portuguese
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ab
pt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
por
ISO 639 2/B
abk
por
ISO 639 3
abk
por
ISO 639 6
abks
por
Glottocode
abkh1244
port1283
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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