Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
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Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
6230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
25
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6025
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
амритана
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
Амарахь
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
-
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
106,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Serbia
How Many People Speak
106,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Turkey
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
106,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million8.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million8.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Montenegrin
French Name
abkhaze
serbe
German Name
Abchasisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Serbs
Origin
c. 1650
11th Century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Serbian
Language Position
2844
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
srp
ISO 639 2/B
abk
srp
ISO 639 3
abk
srp
ISO 639 6
abks
srp
Glottocode
abkh1244
serb1264
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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