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Abkhaz-Adyge languages map

4 Abkhaz-Adyge languages are on the map, most of them in Turkey, Russia and Israel. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Circassian (2 languages). The best-known members include Kabardian, West Circassian and Abkhaz. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

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How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Abkhaz-Adyge family at a glance

  • 4languages
  • 3drawn as areas
  • 1shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Abkhaz-Adyge alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Abkhaz-Adyge languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Kabardian spoken? (about 1.6 million speakers)
  2. Where is West Circassian spoken? (about 576,000 speakers)
  3. Where is Abkhaz spoken? (about 190,000 speakers)
  4. Where is Abaza spoken? (about 48,000 speakers)

Branches of Abkhaz-Adyge

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Circassian (2)
  • Abkhaz-Abaza (2)

Where Abkhaz-Adyge languages are spoken

Countries with the most Abkhaz-Adyge languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 4 Abkhaz-Adyge languages, A to Z

Questions about Abkhaz-Adyge languages

How many Abkhaz-Adyge languages are there?

4 living Abkhaz-Adyge languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Circassian (2 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Abkhaz-Adyge languages spoken?

Turkey (4), Russia (4), Israel (1), Jordan (1), Syria (1) and Georgia (1) have the most Abkhaz-Adyge languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Abkhaz-Adyge languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Kabardian (about 1.6 million), West Circassian (about 576,000) and Abkhaz (about 190,000). These figures differ between sources and years.

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