Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Abkhazia
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Caucasian languages
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Not Available
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
désolé
  
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Not available
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Bzyb
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Caucasus
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Sadz
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Turkey
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.13 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
Français
  
French Name
abkhaze
  
français
  
German Name
Abchasisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1650
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ab
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
abk
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
abk
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
abk
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
abks
  
fras
  
Glottocode
abkh1244
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic