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Croatian
Croatian

Abkhaz
Abkhaz



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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia

Total No. Of Countries

93
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Abkhazia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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Interesting Facts

  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  • 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

Serbain and Bosnian
Adyghe language, Abaza language

Derived From

Church Slavonic
Caucasian languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3062
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

52
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2560
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks27 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)

Thank You

hvala
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)

How Are You?

kako si
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)

Good Night

laku noć
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)

Good Evening

dobra večer
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)

Good Morning

dobro jutro
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)

Please

molim
амритана

Sorry

Oprostite
Амарахь

Bye

Doviđenja
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)

I Love You

Volim te
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Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Bzyb

Where They Speak

Croatia
Abkhazia

How Many People Speak

660,000.00106,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Abzhywa

Where They Speak

Croatia
Caucasus

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.00106,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Sadz

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Turkey

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00106,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

793
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million0.13 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million0.13 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million-
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Abxazo, Abkhazian

French Name

croate
abkhaze

German Name

Kroatisch
Abchasisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[abxaz]

Ethnicity

Croats
Abkhaz people

History

Origin

9th century
c. 1650

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Abkhaz

Language Position

2328
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
ab

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
abk

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
abk

ISO 639 3

hrv
abk

ISO 639 6

hrv
abks

Glottocode

croa1245
abkh1244

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative