Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Abkhazia
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Caucasian languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-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)
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
günaydın
  
Please
Not Available
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Not available
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Bzyb
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Caucasus
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Sadz
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Turkey
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.13 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
abkhaze
  
turc
  
German Name
Abchasisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
  
Turkish
  
Origin
c. 1650
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ab
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
abk
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
abk
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
abk
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
abks
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
abkh1244
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic