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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhaz_languageAbkhaz , sometimes spelled Abxaz and also known as Abkhazian, is a Northwest Caucasian language most closely related to Abaza. It is spoken mostly by the Abkhaz people. It is one of the official languages of Abkhazia, where around 100,000 people speak it. Furthermore, it is spoken by thousands of
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See moreAbkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language and is thus related to Adyghe. The language of Abkhaz is especially close to Abaza, and they are sometimes considered dialects of the same language, Abazgi, of
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The earliest indisputable extant written records of the Abkhaz language are in the Arabic script, recorded by the Turkish traveller
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Abkhaz has a very large number of consonants (58 in the literary dialect), with three-way voiced/voiceless/ejective and palatalized/labialized/plain distinctions. By contrast, the language has only two phonemically distinct...
See moreThere is not an agreed number of speakers of Abkhaz, and there are widely different numbers. It is agreed that today most of the Abkhaz
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Abkhaz is generally viewed as having three major dialects:
• Abzhywa, spoken in the Caucasus, and named after the historical...
See moreTypical of Northwest Caucasian languages, Abkhaz is an agglutinative language that relies heavily on affixation. It has an ergative-absolutive typology, such that the subject of an
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Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mainly in Abkhazia, an autonomous republic in Georgia. There are also Abkhaz speakers in the Republic of Adjara in Georgia, and in Turkey, Russia, Syria, Iraq and Jordan. In 2015 there were about 190,110 speakers of Abkhaz, including 129,000 in Georgia, and 44,000 in Turkey.
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Abkhaz, numerically the most important Abkhazo-Adyghian language of Transcaucasia, is spoken chiefly in Abkhazia republic, Georgia; and Abaza, which is closely related to Abkhaz, is spoken along a portion of the coast of the Georgian republic of Ajaria.
Language - Discover Abkhazia
https://www.discoverabkhazia.org/languageAbkhaz is the official language of Abkhazia, and part of the Abaza, Adyghe, Kabardian and Ubykh language family. About 100,000 people speak Abkhaz in Abkhazia. There are also Abkhaz speakers in Turkey, Georgia, Syria, Jordan, Europe and the USA. There are two main dialects of Abkhaz: the northern Bzup dialect and the southern Abzhawa dialect.
The Abkhazian language and its place in the Caucasian
https://abkhazworld.com/aw/abkhazians/language/662-the-abkhazian-languageThe Abkhazian language - is the native language of Abkhazians, which live in Republic of Abkhazia and it is also spoken in many countries of the world /Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Germany, USA and others/ by the descendants of makhadgers, which were …
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Abkhaz language in ten questions and answers
https://abaza.org/en/abkhaz-language-in-ten-questions-and-answersAbkhaz language is the state language of the Republic of Abkhazia. It is native to half of the population of the republic, that is, to 122 thousand ethnic Abkhaz living in the republic as of 2011. In Russia, according to the 2010 census, 6,786 people speak the Abkhaz language.
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Unlike other languages spoken on or near the Black Sea like Georgian, Armenian and Greek with long written histories, Abkhaz was never written down until very recently, and so we have almost no direct evidence that it was spoken in Abkhazia before the 17th century with the publication of Turkish travel-writer Evliya Celebi’s Seyahatname ‘Book of Travel’, which mentions a few words …
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Aug 04, 2019 · The five-year-old Solomon Achba lives with his parents in the town of Gudauta, and he spoke his first words exactly in Abkhaz. So his native language became for him a truly native one. The boy began to speak Russian quite recently.
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Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language mostly spoken in the Caucasus. Abkhaz is the official language of Abkhazia, an autonomous republic of Georgia and is generally viewed as having three major dialects: Abzhuy, Bzyp (the Caucasian dialects) and Sadz (in Turkey). Abkhaz is often claimed to be simply a divergent dialect of a larger language, Abkhaz-Abaza.
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63 rows · Abkhaz did not become a written language until the 19th century. Up until then, Abkhazians, especially princes, had been using Greek (up to c. 9th century), Georgian (9–19th centuries), and partially Turkish (18th century) languages. The Abkhaz word for alphabet is анбан (anban), which was borrowed from Georgian ანბანი (anbani). Contents 1 History
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