 abkhaz laurie bauer, 2007, the linguistics studentâs handbook, edinburgh (sometimes spelled abxaz; ) is a northwest caucasian language spoken mostly by the abkhaz people. it is the official language of abkhazia where around 100,000 people speak it. furthermore, it is spoken by thousands of members of the abkhazian diaspora in turkey, georgia's autonomous republic of adjara, syria, jordan and several western countries. the russian census of 2010 reported 6,786 speakers of abkhaz in russia.row 7 in  ==classification== abkhaz is a northwest caucasian language, and is therefore related to adyghe. it is especially close to abaza, and these are sometimes considered dialects of the same language, abazgi, of which the literary dialects of abkhaz and abaza are simply two ends of a dialect continuum. grammatically, the two are very similar; however, the differences in phonology are substantial, and are the main reason why many other linguists prefer to keep the two separate. most linguists (see for instance chirikba 2003) believe that ubykh is the closest relative of the abkhazâabaza dialect continuum. ==geographical distribution== abkhaz is spoken primarily in abkhazia. abkhaz is also spoken by members of the large abkhaz muhajir diaspora, mainly located in turkey with smaller groups living in syria, iraq and jordan; georgia's autonomous republic of adjara; throughout the former ussr (e.g. armenia and the ukraine) and through more recent emigration in western countries such as germany, the netherlands and the united states. however, the exact number of abkhaz speakers in these countries remains unknown due to a lack of official records. ==dialects== abkhaz is gene
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