Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
National Language
Germany
Abkhazia
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
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Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
hallo
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Danke
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
guten Abend
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Bye
Tschüs
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
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Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Abkhazia
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Germany
Caucasus
Dialect 3
Texas German
Sadz
Where They Speak
Texas
Turkey
Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
Deutsch
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
allemand
abkhaze
German Name
Deutsch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Germans
Abkhaz people
Origin
6th Century AD
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Abkhaz
Signed Forms
Signed German
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
abkh1244
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
German and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Abkhaz language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common German Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The German vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.