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Preferred term

abkAbkhazian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Abkhaz (Аҧсуа бызшәа) 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 2002 census.

Entry terms

  • Abkhaz language

ISO 639-1 code

  • ab

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • abk

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • abk

ISO 639-3 code

  • abk

Notation

  • abk

In other languages

  • abkhaze

    French

  • Abkhaze
  • Abchasisch

    German

  • Abchasische Sprache
  • abkhazian

    Italian

  • Lingua abcasa
  • Portuguese

  • Língua abecásia
  • abjasio

    Spanish

  • Idioma abjasio

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/abk

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