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The Abkhazian language belongs to the northwest Caucasian family spoken by only the Abazins, Adyghey, Kabardians and Circassians. It is written in a modified Cyrillic alphabet.
Sounds
Like the other Northwest Caucasian languages, Abkhaz is very rich in consonants, but has only a few vowels. Below is the Abkhaz X-SAMPA phoneme chart, for the standard dialect; the Bzyb dialect has even more consonants.
- Labials: p p_> b v f w m
- Dentals: t t_> d n
- Labialized dentals: t_w t_>_w d_w
- Alveolar sibilants: ts ts_> dz s z
- Labialized alveolar sibilants: ts_w ts_>_w dz_w
- Palatalized alveolar sibilants: ts_j ts_>_j dz_j s_j z_j
- Postalveolar sibilants: tS tS_> dZ S Z
- Labialized postalveolar sibilants: tS_w dZ_w
- Lateral: l
- Rhotic trill: r
- Palatals: k_j k_>_j g_j j
- Velars: k k_> g
- Uvulars: q_> X R
- Palatized uvulars: q_>_j X_j R_j
- Labialized uvulars: q_>_w X_w R_w
- Pharyngeals: X\ X\_w
- Labiopalatal semivowel: H (< ?\_w, a labialized voiced pharyngeal fricative)
- Vowels: @ a (with allophones [i] and [e] next to palatals, [o] and [u] next to labials)
External links
nl:Abchazisch
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