Аҧсуа бызшәа

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Аҧсуа бызшәа is the Northwest Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Abkhaz people in Abkhazia and surrounding regions.

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Аҧсуа бызшәа canonical 1

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instanceOf Abkhaz–Adyghe language
Northwest Caucasian language
language
belongsTo Caucasian languages
closelyRelatedTo Abaza
surface form: Abaza language
coOfficialWith Russian language
endangeredStatus vulnerable language
glottologCode abkh1244
hasAlphabet Abkhaz Cyrillic alphabet
hasCaseSystem ergative–absolutive
hasDialect Abzhywa dialect
Bzyb dialect
Sadz dialect
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
ISO639-1Code ab
ISO639-2Code abk
ISO639-3Code abk
languageBranch Abkhaz–Abaza
languageFamily Northwest Caucasian languages
morphologicalFeature polysynthetic verb morphology
morphologicalType agglutinative language
nameInEnglish Abkhaz language
nameInGeorgian Abkhaz language
surface form: აფხაზური ენა
nameInRussian абхазский язык
nativeName Аҧсуа бызшәа
numberOfLettersInAlphabet over 50 letters
officialStatusIn Abkhazia
phonologicalFeature few vowel phonemes
large consonant inventory
rich system of consonant clusters
previousWritingSystem Georgian script
Latin script
region Caucasus
regulator Abkhazian State University
spokenBy Abkhazians
surface form: Abkhaz people
spokenIn Abkhazia
Georgia
Russia
Syria
Turkey
syntacticFeature ergative alignment
usedIn Abkhaz education
Abkhaz literature
Abkhaz media
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemStandardizedIn 20th century

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Abkhaz language nativeName Аҧсуа бызшәа