Bzyb Abkhaz

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Bzyb Abkhaz is a dialect of the Abkhaz language traditionally spoken in the Bzyb River region of Abkhazia.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Bzyb Abkhaz canonical 1
Bzyb district of Abkhazia 1
Bzyp Abkhaz 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Abkhaz dialect
dialect
belongsTo Abkhaz language continuum
linked to: Abkhaz–Abaza
closelyRelatedTo Abzhywa Abkhaz
Sadz Abkhaz
consonantInventory large consonant inventory
country Georgia
differsFrom standard Abkhaz in lexicon
standard Abkhaz in morphology
standard Abkhaz in phonology
documentationStatus limited descriptive work
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
ethnicGroup Abkhaz people
linked to: Abkhazians
geographicDistribution villages along the Bzyb River
hasAgreement person and number agreement on verb
hasAlternativeName Bzyp Abkhaz
linked to: Bzyb Abkhaz
hasAlternativeTransliteration Bzyb dialect of Abkhaz
hasCaseSystem limited nominal case marking
hasDialects none
hasFeature complex verbal agreement
rich consonant clusters
hasMorphology polysynthetic morphology
hasPhonology Abkhaz phonological system
hasStressPattern fixed stress (as in Abkhaz)
hasSyntax head-marking syntax
hasWordOrder typically verb–initial
historicalRegion Bzyb district of Abkhazia
linked to: Bzyb Abkhaz
ISO639-3 abk
languageBranch Abkhaz–Abaza
languageCodeScope macrolanguage (Abkhaz)
languageFamily Northwest Caucasian languages
languageShiftTo Russian
standard Abkhaz
linguisticTypology ergative–absolutive alignment
namedAfter Bzyb River
parentLanguage Abkhaz
linked to: Abkhaz language
region northwestern Abkhazia
sharesISOCodeWith Abkhaz language
spokenIn Abkhazia
Bzyb River region
linked to: Bzyb River valley

Caucasus
standardLanguageBasedOn Abzhywa dialect of Abkhaz
subdivisionOf Abkhaz language
usedBy local communities in Bzyb region
usedByGeneration primarily older speakers
usedIn oral communication
vowelInventory small vowel inventory
writingSystem Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Abkhaz–Abaza hasSubgroup Bzyb Abkhaz
Bzyb Abkhaz hasAlternativeName Bzyp Abkhaz
linked to: Bzyb Abkhaz
Bzyb Abkhaz historicalRegion Bzyb district of Abkhazia
linked to: Bzyb Abkhaz