Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Abkhazia
  
Austria
  
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
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Caucasian languages
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-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)
  
bok
  
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Not Available
  
molim
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Not available
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Bzyb
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Caucasus
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Sadz
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Turkey
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.13 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
abkhaze
  
croate
  
German Name
Abchasisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
  
Croats
  
Origin
c. 1650
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ab
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
abk
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
abk
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
abk
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
abks
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
abkh1244
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Abkhaz and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Abkhaz and Croatian language. Abkhaz word for "Hello" is Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Abkhaz Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Abkhaz vs Croatian Difficulty
The Abkhaz vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Abkhaz Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Abkhaz and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Abkhaz is 27 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.