Бзиара!
say it: “bzee-AH-rah”
Abkhaz
in its own words: аҧсуа бызшәа
- Speakers
- 200 thousand (estimate)
- Family
- Northwest Caucasian
- Vitality
- Vulnerable
- Where it is spoken
- Georgia, Russian Federation, Türkiye
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Official language
- Georgia (regional)
Fun fact
Abkhaz has only two vowel phonemes but around sixty consonants, one of the highest consonant-to-vowel ratios of any language.