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Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language [8] [9] and is thus related to Adyghe.The language of Abkhaz is especially close to Abaza, and they are sometimes considered dialects of the same language, [10] [11] Abazgi, of which the literary dialects of Abkhaz and Abaza are simply two ends of a dialect continuum.
Abkhaz has only two distinctive vowels: an open vowel /a ~ ɑ/ and a close vowel /ɨ ~ ə/. These basic vowels have a wide range of allophones in different consonantal environments, with allophones [e] and [i] respectively next to palatals , [o] and [u] next to labials , and [ø] and [y] next to labiopalatals.
The Northwest Caucasian languages, [1] also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, [2] Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages (from Ancient Greek, pontos, referring to the Black Sea, in contrast to the Northeast Caucasian languages as the Caspian languages), is a family of languages spoken in the northwestern Caucasus region, [3] chiefly in three Russian republics ...
Proto-Northwest Caucasian (sometimes abbreviated PNWC), also Proto-Adyghe-Abazgi or Proto-Adyghe-Abkhaz, is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Northwest Caucasian languages. Phonology [ edit ]
A bashlyk, also spelled bashlik (Karachay-Balkar: Başlıq, Adyghe: Shkharkhon, Abkhaz: qtarpá, Chechen: Ċukkuiy, Ossetic: басылыхъхъ, basylyqq, Crimean Tatar: Başlıq, Tatar: Başlıq, Turkish: Başlık; "baş" - head, "-lıq" (Tatar) / "-lık" (Turkish) - derivative suffix), is a traditional Turkic, North Caucasian, Iranian, and ...
Abazgi is the branch of the Northwest Caucasian languages that contains the Abaza and Abkhaz languages. "Abazgi" was once the preferred designation, but has now been replaced by "Abkhaz–Abaza". [citation needed] The literary dialects of Abkhaz and Abaza are two ends of a dialect continuum. Grammatically, the two are very similar; however, the ...
The Abkhaz people are principally divided into Abkhazian Orthodox Christian (the Abkhazian Orthodox Church is not recognized by any of the world Orthodox churches, but the territory is recognized as the Eparchy of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia of the Georgian Orthodox Church) and Sunni Muslim (Hanafi) communities, [21] (prevalent in Abkhazia ...
Abkhaz did not become a written language until the 19th century. Up until then, Abkhazians, especially princes, had been using Greek (up to c. 9th century), Georgian (9–19th centuries), and partially Turkish (18th century) languages. [2] The Abkhaz word for alphabet is анбан (anban), which was borrowed from Georgian ანბანი ...