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Abkhaz, also known as Abkhazian is a Northwest Caucasian language related to Abaza, Adyghe, Kabardian and Ubykh. There are also Abkhaz speakers, perhaps hundreds of thousands, in Turkey, the republic of Adjara in Georgia, Syria, Jordan, Germany and the USA.
Abkhaz is spoken by 190,110 native speakers (2014–2015), nowadays, uses Cyrillic script (historically; Georgian and Latin) and have two main dialects: the Bzâp (northern dialect) and the Abz'âwa (southern dialect).
Abkhaz first appeared in writing was in 1862/3 in the Cyrillic alphabet using a spelling system based on the Bzâp dialect and devised by the Russian soldier-linguist Baron Peter von Uslar.
Dârmit' Gulia (1874-1960) is the Father of Abkhaz Literature because he wrote the first novel in Abkhaz. Also founded the first Abkhaz newspaper, wrote poety, plays, translations, historical and ethnographical writings and lectured on Abkhaz at Tbilisi University
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