Abkhaz-Adyge · ISO 639-3 ady
Adyghe Language Адыгабзэ
Adyghe is an Abkhaz-Adyge language spoken by about 575,900 people in 3 countries. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Adyghe is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Adyghe language
Adyghe (Адыгабзэ) is spoken by about 575,900 people, which makes it the 492nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Lezghian (633,610) and ahead of Maltese (570,000). It belongs to the Abkhaz-Adyge language family.
Where is Adyghe spoken?
Adyghe is used in 3 countries. The largest communities live in Türkiye (328,066), Russia (114,065) and Jordan (111,740).
Share of the population that speaks Adyghe: Türkiye 0.4% (328,066), Russia <0.1% (114,065) and Jordan 1% (111,740).
Adyghe is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Adyghe is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Kabardian.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ady.
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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.