Language code: ab
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ab
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The table below provides technical details for the Abkhazian language, designated by the ab code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Abkhazian Native Аҧсуа бызшәа |
| Family | Northwest Caucasian |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Abzhywa (Abzhui)Bzyb (Bzyp)Sadz |
| Related languages | AbazaAdygheKabardianUbykh |
| Key facts | The current Cyrillic alphabet has 62 letters, making it one of the largest scripts in useIt distinguishes only two phonemic vowels contrasted with over fifty consonantsSyntax is ergative and verbs show elaborate agglutinative morphologyAbkhaz orthography has shifted between Georgian, Latin and Cyrillic scripts over the last centuryNotorious consonant clusters appear in everyday words, e.g., the six-consonant sequence in the verb meaning “you drank it.” |
| Sample phrase | Ҳауба, уарала? |
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Abkhazian is a Northwest Caucasian language primarily spoken by the Abkhaz people, who mainly reside in Abkhazia, located in the South Caucasus. It is written using the Cyrillic script. It is estimated that there are around 100,000 speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
Speakers
100K
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Abkhazian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ