Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
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Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6233
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6021
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
амритана
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Амарахь
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
-
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
106,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Olonets
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Olonets
How Many People Speak
106,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Turkey
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
106,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %2.33 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Русский
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Russki
French Name
abkhaze
russe
German Name
Abchasisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Russians
Origin
c. 1650
1000 AD
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Russian
Language Position
287
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
rus
ISO 639 2/B
abk
rus
ISO 639 3
abk
rus
ISO 639 6
abks
rus
Glottocode
abkh1244
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic