Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
73
0
46
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National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Abkhazia
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
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Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Latin
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2162
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
52
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1660
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ciao
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
grazie
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Come stai?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
buonanotte
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
buonasera
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
buongiorno
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
Per Favore
амритана
Sorry
scusate
Амарахь
Bye
arrivederci
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Ti amo
-
Excuse Me
Scusami
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Romanesco
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Lazio
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Italian
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tuscan
Sadz
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
Turkey
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
78.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.90 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
64.00 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
14.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
Italiano
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Italiano
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
italien
abkhaze
German Name
Italienisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Italians
Abkhaz people
Origin
960 BC
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Romance
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Italian
Abkhaz
Language Position
2728
1
120
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Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
it
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ita
abk
ISO 639 2/B
ita
abk
ISO 639 3
ita
abk
ISO 639 6
itas
abks
Glottocode
ital1282
abkh1244
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative