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 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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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)
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?
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
👆🏻
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
Origin
1000 AD
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Slavic
-
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
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