1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Abkhazia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
1.10 Derived From
Caucasian languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Cyrillic
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
2
12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks
Rank: 8 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
3.2 Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
3.3 How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
3.4 Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
3.5 Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.7 Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
3.8 Please
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
Not Available
3.10 Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
3.11 I Love You
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
Not available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Bzyb
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Abkhazia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
1.3 Dialect 2
Abzhywa
1.3.1 Where They Speak
Caucasus
1.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
2.3 Dialect 3
Sadz
2.3.1 Where They Speak
Turkey
2.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
2.4 Total No. Of Dialects
3 How Many People Speak
3.1 How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
Rank: 92 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
3.5 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
3.2 Native Speakers
0.13 million
Rank: 89 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
4.3.3 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
4.5.3 Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
4.5.4 Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
4.5.5 French Name
abkhaze
4.5.6 German Name
Abchasisch
4.6 Pronunciation
Not Available
4.7 Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
5 History
5.1 Origin
c. 1650
5.2 Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
5.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
5.2.2 Branch
Not Available
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
Abkhaz
5.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
5.4.1 Signed Forms
Not Available
5.5 Scope
Individual
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
ab
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
abk
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
abk
6.3 ISO 639 3
abk
6.4 ISO 639 6
abks
6.5 Glottocode
abkh1244
6.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
Historical
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative