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Abkhaz
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Countries

Countries

Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia

Total No. Of Countries

3
Rank: 12 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Abkhazia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Not Available

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.

Similar To

Adyghe language, Abaza language

Derived From

Caucasian languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

62
Rank: 36 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

60
Rank: 36 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Not Available
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

27 weeks
Rank: 8 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)

Thank You

Иҭабуп (It̢abup)

How Are You?

Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)

Good Night

Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)

Good Evening

Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)

Good Afternoon

Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)

Good Morning

Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)

Please

Not Available

Sorry

Not Available

Bye

Абзиараз (Abziaraz)

I Love You

Not available

Excuse Me

Not available

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bzyb

Where They Speak

Abkhazia

How Many People Speak

Not Available
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Abzhywa

Where They Speak

Caucasus

How Many People Speak

Not Available
700 80000000
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Dialect 3

Sadz

Where They Speak

Turkey

How Many People Speak

Not Available
1400 96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.13 million
Rank: 92 (Overall)
0.13 1200
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Speaking Population

Not Available
0.11 89
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Native Speakers

0.13 million
Rank: 89 (Overall)
0.13 873
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Second Language Speakers

Not Available
0.01 400
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Native Name

аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)

Alternative Names

Abxazo, Abkhazian

French Name

abkhaze

German Name

Abchasisch

Pronunciation

Not Available

Ethnicity

Abkhaz people

History

Origin

c. 1650

Language Family

Northwest Caucasian

Subgroup

Not Available

Branch

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Abkhaz

Language Position

Not Available
1 120
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Signed Forms

Not Available

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ab

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

abk

ISO 639 2/B

abk

ISO 639 3

abk

ISO 639 6

abks

Glottocode

abkh1244

Linguasphere

No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Abkhaz

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Abkhaz Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Abkhaz Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Abkhaz. Abkhaz phonology gives Abkhaz vowels and Abkhaz consonants. There are 2 vowels and 60 consonants in Abkhaz language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Abkhaz is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Abkhaz language is given in detail in this section.

All Abkhaz countries

Want to explore all Abkhaz countries? About Abkhaz language serves you with all Abkhaz Speaking Countries. Countries that use Abkhaz as official language are called as Abkhaz countries.

  • Countries that use Abkhaz as their National Language are: Abkhazia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Abkhaz as second language are: Abkhaz is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Abkhaz greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Abkhaz Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Abkhaz language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Abkhaz language.Learn Abkhaz greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  • Thank you: Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  • Good Morning: Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  • Good Evening: Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  • Good Afternoon: Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)

All Abkhaz Language Codes

Get to know all Abkhaz language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Abkhaz Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.