Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Abkhazia
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Caucasian languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Not Available
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Not available
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Bzyb
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Caucasus
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Sadz
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Turkey
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.13 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
Not Available
  
French Name
abkhaze
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Abchasisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
c. 1650
  
1561
  
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ab
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
abk
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
abk
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
abk
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
abks
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
abkh1244
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic