Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
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
Not Available
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
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
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)
Not Available
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Not Available
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Not available
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Not available
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Olonets
Caucasus
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Turkey
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Russki
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
russe
abkhaze
German Name
Russisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
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Ethnicity
Russians
Abkhaz people
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Abkhaz
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
abks
Glottocode
russ1263
abkh1244
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Russian 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 Russian and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Abkhaz language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Russian vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.