Abkhaz-Adyge · ISO 639-3 abk · ab
Abkhazian Language Аҧсшәа
Abkhazian is an Abkhaz-Adyge language spoken by about 190,110 people in 2 countries. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Abkhazian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Abkhazian language
Abkhazian (Аҧсшәа) is spoken by about 190,110 people, which makes it the 519th most spoken language in the world — just behind Maori (213,849) and ahead of Tonga (Tonga Islands) (186,010). It belongs to the Abkhaz-Adyge language family.
Where is Abkhazian spoken?
Abkhazian is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Georgia (107,821) and Türkiye (4,037).
Share of the population that speaks Abkhazian: Georgia 2.2% (107,821) and Türkiye <0.1% (4,037).
Abkhazian is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Georgia.
Writing system and status
Abkhazian is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 ab, ISO 639-3 abk.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.