Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
311
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
-
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6229
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
28
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
6021
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Merhaba
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Tünaydın
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
günaydın
Please
амритана
lütfen
Sorry
Амарахь
üzgünüm
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Hoşçakal
I Love You
-
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
106,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
106,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Sadz
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Turkey
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
106,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
abkhaze
turc
German Name
Abchasisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Turkish
Origin
c. 1650
c. 1350
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
2819
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
tur
ISO 639 2/B
abk
tur
ISO 639 3
abk
tur
ISO 639 6
abks
tur
Glottocode
abkh1244
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data Available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic