Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Abkhazia
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
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.
  
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Caucasian languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Not Available
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Not available
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Bzyb
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Caucasus
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Sadz
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Turkey
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.13 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
abkhaze
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Abchasisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
c. 1650
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ab
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
abk
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
abk
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
abk
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
abks
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
abkh1244
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available