Countries
India
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
-
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3062
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
62
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2160
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
Henda ho
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Adi Johar
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
Boge Ninda
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
দয়া করে
амритана
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Амарахь
Bye
Hariau
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
-
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Mahali
Bzyb
Where They Speak
India
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
-
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Sadz
Where They Speak
-
Turkey
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
6.30 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
6.30 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.50 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
santal
abkhaze
German Name
Santali
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Abkhaz people
Origin
20th century
c. 1650
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Abkhaz
Language Position
4128
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
abk
ISO 639 2/B
sat
abk
ISO 639 3
sat
abk
ISO 639 6
sat
abks
Glottocode
sant1410
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative