https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Abkhaz_Language_%28abk%29Abkhaz Language (abk) - Revision history2026-10-17T01:35:21ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.1https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?title=Abkhaz_Language_(abk)&diff=34367&oldid=prevRosbot: New page: <table valign=top> <tr> <td valign=top align=left width="50%"> <table valign=top> <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Abxazo,Abkhaz <b>Description:</b> Abkhaz is a Northwe...2009-08-13T16:38:42Z<p>New page: <table valign=top> <tr> <td valign=top align=left width="50%"> <table valign=top> <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Abxazo,Abkhaz <b>Description:</b> Abkhaz is a Northwe...</p>
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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Abxazo,Abkhaz<br />
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Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mainly by the Abkhaz people. It is the official language of Abkhazia, where around 100,000 people speak it. Furthermore, it is spoken by thousands of members of the Abkhazian diaspora in Turkey, Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara, Syria, Jordan and several Western countries. Russia has 9447 Abkhaz speakers, according to the last census.<br />
Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language, indicating it originated in the northwest Caucasus. Northwest Caucasian languages have been suggested as being related to the Northeast Caucasian languages and both are often merged under the blanket term "North Caucasian languages"; several linguists, notably Sergei Starostin, posit a phylogenetic link between these two families. Some consider the proposed North Caucasian family to be a member of the Dene-Caucasian macrofamily; however, the Dene-Caucasian hypothesis is itself unproven and highly controversial, and attempts to categorize Abkhaz as a Dene-Caucasian language are thus premature. Also, sometimes the North Caucasian families are grouped with the South Caucasian languages into a pan-Caucasian or Ibero-Caucasian macrofamily, but these have not<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=202365 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr><br />
<tr><td><h2>Location of Abkhaz Language Speakers</h2><br />
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<tr><td>Detailed Description:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_abk_detail-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_abk_detail-1 (browse)] </td></tr><br />
<tr><td>Grammar:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_abk_morsyn-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_abk_morsyn-1 (browse)] </td></tr><br />
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_abk_ortho-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_abk_ortho-2 (browse)] </td></tr><br />
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_abk_phon-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_abk_phon-1 (browse)] </td></tr><br />
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_abk_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_abk_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr><br />
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<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000060234 Georgia]</td></tr><br />
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<b><i>Countries: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000060234 Georgia] <br />
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/asia Asia] <br />
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>ab</td></tr><br />
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-2 Code: </b></td><td>abk</td></tr><br />
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>abk</td></tr><br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[North Caucasian Group]]<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Northwest North Caucasian Group]]<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Abkhaz-Abazin Group]]<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Abkhaz Language]]</b><br />
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