ISO 639-3 · abkabk
North Caucasian family
Abkhaz
Аԥсуа бызшәа
Abkhaz is a language of the Northwest Caucasian branch (North Caucasian), spoken in Turkey, Russia, Jordan and Syria and 2 more countries. Wikidata counts about 190,110 speakers (2015). Wikidata describes it as “Northwest Caucasian language native to northwestern Georgia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
abk- ISO 639-1
ab- Glottocode
abkh1244- Family
- North Caucasian
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- 43.15, 41.00
- Wikipedia
- 128 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
6countries
1scripts
2levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Abkhaz · Аԥсуа бызшәа |
|---|---|
| Also called | Abkhaz language, Abkhazian, Abxaz, apsshwa, Apsua byzshwa |
| All speakers | 190,110 (2015) |
| Written in | Cyrillic |
| Grammatical cases | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From North Caucasian to Abkhaz
The branches above Abkhaz, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Turkey
araArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeturTurkishTurkic · 88.1 m1 · NationalapcLevantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 44 mazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafeapcNorth Levantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 24.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkurKurdishIndo-European · 21 mSafeazbSouth AzerbaijaniTurkic · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkmrKurmanjiIndo-European · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationaluigUyghurEastern Karluk · 10.4 m2 · Provincial