Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Spain
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic 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
French Language
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
hola
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
triste
  
Not Available
  
Bye
adiós
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
Not Available
  
Native Name
Español
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
210 BC
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative