Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Abkhazia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Caucasian languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Not Available
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
آسف
  
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Not available
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Bzyb
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Caucasus
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Sadz
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Turkey
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.13 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
abkhaze
  
arabe
  
German Name
Abchasisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
c. 1650
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ab
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
abk
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
abk
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
abk
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
abks
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
abkh1244
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic