1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.1 Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.4 Derived From
Caucasian languages
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.4.2 How Many Consonants
2.5 Scripts
2.6 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
2.7 Hard to Learn
2.7.1 Language Levels
2.7.3 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Molo
3.2 Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Unjani
3.4 Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Molo
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Not Available
Ndicela uxolo
3.10 Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Not available
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.5 Dialect 2
4.5.1 Where They Speak
4.5.2 How Many People Speak
4.6 Dialect 3
4.6.1 Where They Speak
4.6.2 How Many People Speak
4.7 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.13 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.13 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
isiXhosa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Xhosa
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fa
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available