Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
National Language
Russia
Abkhazia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Not Available
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Not Available
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Not available
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Not available
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Olonets
Caucasus
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Turkey
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Russki
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
russe
abkhaze
German Name
Russisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Abkhaz people
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Abkhaz
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
abks
Glottocode
russ1263
abkh1244
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Russian and Abkhaz Speaking population
Russian and Abkhaz speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Abkhaz languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Abkhaz Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Abkhaz language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Abkhaz on Russian vs Abkhaz where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Abkhaz Language Codes
Russian and Abkhaz language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Abkhaz Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.