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Definitions: Abkhaz |
AbkhazNoun1. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea. 2. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: AbkhazSynonyms: Abkhas (n), Abkhazia (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Abkhaz is often claimed to be simply a divergent dialect of a larger language, Abkhaz-Abaza. It makes better linguistic sense, however, to separate Abkhaz and Abaza into two separate languages. Abkhaz is generally viewed as having three major dialects, Abzhuy, Bzyp (the Caucasian dialects) and Sadz (in Turkey).
Abkhaz is characterised by unusual consonant clusters and a small vowel inventory. It has only two distinctive vowels: an open vowel /a/ and a closed vowel /ı, ǝ/. Depending on the environment both of the vowels can be realized as [e,i,o,u]. Abzhuy Abkhaz has 58 consonants, whereas Bzyp has 67.
The first fragments of Abkhaz that we have were taken down in the Arabic alphabet by the Turkish traveller Evliya Celebi in the 11th century. Abkhaz has only been a full literary language for about 100 years, and during the Stalinist Russian years Abkhaz was banned as a literary language.
Abkhaz has its own alphabet, based on Cyrillic, and is now the national language of the Republic of Abkhazia.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Abkhaz language."
Crosswords: Abkhaz |
| English words defined with "Abkhaz": Abkhasian, Abkhazian. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Poema abkhaz jabukze (1977) | |
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Civil Liberties | Georgia | An Abkhaz "Presidential," decree bans Jehovah's Witnesses. (references) |
Georgia | In January 1999, the Abkhaz separatist regime unilaterally invited IDP's to return to Gali starting on March 1, 1999, but did not ensure adequately their safety. (references) | |
Georgia | Five persons who were detained in April 1999 for violating the decree were released after their counsel argued that their detention violated a freedom of conscience clause in the Abkhaz Constitution. (references) | |
Discrimination | Georgia | Ethnic Armenians, Azeris, Greeks, Abkhaz, Ossetian, and Russian communities usually communicate in their native languages or in Russian. (references) |
Economic History | Georgia | Language: Georgian (official), Abkhaz also official language in Abkhazia. (references) |
Georgia | The Abkhaz faction remains vocal and influential in pushing for resolution for the Abkhaz conflict. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | Abkhaz and Georgian officials have agreed on joint law enforcement efforts to prosecute kidnapers and other criminals that may threaten to destabilize the ceasefire. (references) |
Georgia | Killings were committed by elements on both sides of the separatist conflict in Abkhazia, including Georgian partisan groups and forces of the Abkhaz separatist regime. (references) | |
Georgia | Georgian and Abkhaz commissions on missing persons reported that over 1,000 Georgians and several hundred Abkhaz remained missing as a result of the 1992-1994 war in Abkhazia. (references) | |
Political Economy | Georgia | In 1993 Abkhaz separatists won control of Abkhazia, and most ethnic Georgians were expelled from or fled the region. (references) |
Georgia | In 1994 Russian peacekeeping forces representing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) deployed to Abkhazia with the agreement of Abkhaz separatists. (references) | |
Travel | Georgia | Abkhaz 'border officials' may require travelers to purchase a visa from the so-called Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia. (references) |
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| "Abkhaz" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abkhaz" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "abkhaz"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | abkhazay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-h-k-z" | |
-3 letters: aah, aba, aha, baa, bah, kab. | |
-4 letters: aa, ab, ah, ba, ha, ka. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 6B 68 61 7A |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... -.- .... .- --.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01101011 01101000 01100001 01111010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b k h a z |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 006B 0068 0061 007A |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356877746792 |
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