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Countries

Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia

Total No. Of Countries
3 12

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
-

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
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Alphabets
62 36

Phonology

How Many Vowels
2 1

How Many Consonants
60 36

Scripts
Cyrillic

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks 8

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
амритана

Sorry
Амарахь

Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)

I Love You
-

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bzyb

Where They Speak
Abkhazia

How Many People Speak
106,000.00 78

Dialect 2
Abzhywa

Where They Speak
Caucasus

How Many People Speak
106,000.00 81

Dialect 3
Sadz

Where They Speak
Turkey

How Many People Speak
106,000.00 68

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.13 million 92

Speaking Population
0.01 % 62

Native Speakers
0.13 million 89

Second Language Speakers
-

Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)

Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian

French Name
abkhaze

German Name
Abchasisch

Pronunciation
[abxaz]

Ethnicity
Abkhaz people

History

Origin
c. 1650

Language Family
Northwest Caucasian

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Abkhaz

Language Position
28 26

Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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