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	Cyrillic
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

Georgia

100K

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

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