Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Abkhazia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Not Available
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Not Available
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Not Available
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Not available
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Not available
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Olonets
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Olonets
Where They Speak
Turkey
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Русский
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Russki
French Name
abkhaze
russe
German Name
Abchasisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Russians
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
abks
Not Available
Glottocode
abkh1244
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Abkhaz and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Abkhaz and Russian language. Abkhaz word for "Hello" is Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Abkhaz Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Abkhaz vs Russian Difficulty
The Abkhaz vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Abkhaz Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Abkhaz and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Abkhaz is 27 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.