Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Abkhazia
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Caucasian languages
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Not Available
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Not available
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Bzyb
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Caucasus
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Sadz
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Turkey
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.13 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
abkhaze
  
allemand
  
German Name
Abchasisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
  
Germans
  
Origin
c. 1650
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ab
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
abk
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
abk
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
abk
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
abks
  
deus
  
Glottocode
abkh1244
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic