Language code: ab

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ab

The table below provides technical details for the Abkhazian language, designated by the ab code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ab

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?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Abkhazian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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