Abkhaz alphabet. Abkhaz alphabet uses Cyrillic, extended to adjust to the extensive consonant system of Abkhaz language. An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters â basic written symbols â each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-20, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Abkhazia and Turkey. ...
Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language, indicating it originated in the northwest Caucasus.
Abkhaz is often united with Abaza into one language, Abkhaz-Abaza, of which the literary dialects of Abkhaz and Abaza are simply two ends of a dialect continuum.
Abkhaz is spoken primarily in Abkhazia, where it is established as the official language of the de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia.
The Abkhazalphabet is an alphabet for the Abkhaz language.
From 1938 to 1954 the Abkhaz language was written in the Georgian alphabet.
From 1954 to the present, Abkhaz language is written in the Cyrillic-based script, extended to adjust to the extensive consonant system of the Abkhaz language.