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Abkhaz vs Chinese


Chinese vs Abkhaz


Countries

Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
5   
10

National Language
Abkhazia   
China, Taiwan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council   

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.
  
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  

Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Caucasian languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Chinese.jpg#200   

Alphabets
62   
36
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
2   
1
24   
19

How Many Consonants
60   
36
23   
13

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available   
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks   
8
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)   
您好 (Nín hǎo)   

Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)   
谢谢 (Xièxiè)   

How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)   
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)   

Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)   
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)   

Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)   
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)   

Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)   
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)   

Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)   
早安 (Zǎo ān)   

Please
Not Available   
请 (Qǐng)   

Sorry
Not Available   
遗憾 (Yíhàn)   

Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)   
再见 (Zàijiàn)   

I Love You
Not available   
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)   

Excuse Me
Not available   
劳驾 (Láojià)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bzyb   
Mandarin   

Where They Speak
Abkhazia   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
960,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 2
Abzhywa   
Wu   

Where They Speak
Caucasus   
China, United States of America   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
80,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 3
Sadz   
Yue   

Where They Speak
Turkey   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.13 million   
99+
1,051.00 million   
2

Speaking Population
Not Available   
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
0.13 million   
99+
873.00 million   
1

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
178.00 million   
3

Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)   
中文 (zhōngwén)   

Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian   
Not Available   

French Name
abkhaze   
chinois   

German Name
Abchasisch   
Chinesisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Abkhaz people   
Han   

History

Origin
c. 1650   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Northwest Caucasian   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Abkhaz   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
Not Available   
1   
1

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
ab   
zh   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
abk   
zho   

ISO 639 2/B
abk   
chi   

ISO 639 3
abk   
zho   

ISO 639 6
abks   
Not Available   

Glottocode
abkh1244   
sini1245   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
79-AAA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Analytic, Isolating   

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Abkhaz and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Abkhaz vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Abkhaz and Chinese language. History of Abkhaz language states that this language originated in c. 1650 whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Abkhaz and Chinese Language History.

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Abkhaz and Chinese Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Abkhaz and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Abkhaz and Chinese language. Abkhaz word for "Hello" is Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Abkhaz Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Abkhaz vs Chinese Difficulty

The Abkhaz vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Abkhaz Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Abkhaz and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Abkhaz and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Abkhaz is 27 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.

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