Abkhaz people
Abkhaz (; ; sometimes spelled Abxaz; ), also known as Abkhazian,&lt;ref name="ISO 639-2/RA"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name="ISO 639-3/RA"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; is a Northwest Caucasian language most closely related to Abaza. It is spoken mostly by the Abkhaz people. It is one of the official languages 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. October 27 is the day of the Abkhazian language in Georgia.