Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Abkhaz (abk) Alternative Names  Abxazo Family/Group  Caucasian, Northwest Area  Eurasia General Data  about 100.000 native speakers in the Abkhaz Autonomous Republic in western Georgia also spoken in southwestern Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey and Syria Typological Information  • polyconsonantal: Standard Abkhaz counts 58 phonemic consonants and two phonemic vowels • ergativity • agglutinative • majority of grammatical information is expressed on the verb - 'verbocentric language' (Chirikba 2003: 22); polysynthetic and complex verb morphology • SOV Reduplication Form-Function  • full • echo word formation: noun: pluralization ("X and so on/all kinds of X") • echo word formation: verb - adverb: word class derivation Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Forms  Select Valueecho stem   Functions  Select Valuepluralization word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuefull echo word formation Semantics  Select Valueother plurality   Word Classes  Select Valueadjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — adjective/adverb noun — noun verb — adjective/adverb   All Examples  ⊟ References Bruening, Benjamin 1997. "Abkhaz Mabkhaz: M-Reduplication in Abkhaz, Weightless Syllables, and Base-Reduplicant Correspondence". In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 30: 291-329  Chirikba, Viacheslav A. 2003. Abkhaz. München: Lincom Europa  Hewitt, B. George 1979. Abkhaz. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company; (relevant pages: 252f)     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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