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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia

Total No. Of Countries

43
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Abkhazia

Second Language

Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Interesting Facts

  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  • 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

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Caucasian languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3362
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

102
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2160
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
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

44 weeks27 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
амритана

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
Амарахь

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
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Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Bzyb

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Abkhazia

How Many People Speak

30,000.00106,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Abzhywa

Where They Speak

Olonets
Caucasus

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00106,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Sadz

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Turkey

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00106,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

133
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million0.13 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million0.13 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million-
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)

Alternative Names

Russki
Abxazo, Abkhazian

French Name

russe
abkhaze

German Name

Russisch
Abchasisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[abxaz]

Ethnicity

Russians
Abkhaz people

History

Origin

1000 AD
c. 1650

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Northwest Caucasian

Subgroup

Slavic
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Branch

Eastern
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Abkhaz

Language Position

728
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Abkhaz Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
ab

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
abk

ISO 639 2/B

rus
abk

ISO 639 3

rus
abk

ISO 639 6

rus
abks

Glottocode

russ1263
abkh1244

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
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

Russian and Abkhaz Alphabets

Russian and Abkhaz Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Abkhaz. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Abkhaz Alphabets there are 62 letters. To learn Russian and Abkhaz languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Abkhaz languages. The Russian phonology consist Russian vowels and Russian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Russian greetings vs Abkhaz greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Abkhaz are Most Spoken Languages.

All Russian and Abkhaz Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Russian and Abkhaz dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Abkhaz language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Abkhaz Dialects are spoken in different Abkhaz speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Abkhaz Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Abkhaz dialects include: Bzyb , Abzhywa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Russian and Abkhaz Speaking population

Russian and Abkhaz speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Abkhaz languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Abkhaz Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Abkhaz language is 0.01 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Abkhaz on Russian vs Abkhaz where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Abkhaz Language Codes

Russian and Abkhaz language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Abkhaz Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.