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Abkhaz vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
3  
12

National Language
Germany  
Abkhazia  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Not Available  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Adyghe language, Abaza language  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Caucasian languages  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
62  
36

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
2  
1

How Many Consonants
9  
1
60  
36

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
Not Available  

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
27 weeks  
8

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)  

Thank You
Danke  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)  

Please
bitte  
Not Available  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
Not Available  

Bye
Tschüs  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
Not available  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
Not available  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Bzyb  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Abkhazia  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Abzhywa  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Caucasus  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Sadz  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Turkey  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
0.13 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
Not Available  

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
0.13 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
Not Available  

Native Name
Deutsch  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Abxazo, Abkhazian  

French Name
allemand  
abkhaze  

German Name
Deutsch  
Abchasisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Abkhaz people  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
c. 1650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Northwest Caucasian  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Not Available  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Abkhaz  

Language Position
9  
9
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
ab  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
abk  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
abk  

ISO 639 3
deu  
abk  

ISO 639 6
deus  
abks  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
abkh1244  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Historical  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative  

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German and Abkhaz Language History

Comparison of German vs Abkhaz language history gives us differences between origin of German and Abkhaz language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD whereas history of Abkhaz language states that this language originated in c. 1650. 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 German and Abkhaz Language History.

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German and Abkhaz 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 German and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Abkhaz language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common German Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

German vs Abkhaz Difficulty

The German vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Abkhaz 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 German and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.

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