abkhazian
n.n. a language spoken by the Abkhaz people in the Caucasus region. It is very different from most other languages in the area.
n. a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by the Abkhaz people in the Republic of Abkhazia and by diaspora communities in Turkey and Russia.
Many people in the region speak Abkhazian as their first language.
The university offers a course in Abkhazian for students interested in the history of the Caucasus.
Linguists note that Abkhazian is highly agglutinative, featuring complex verb structures that allow for the expression of multiple grammatical functions within a single word.
From Abkhazia + -n.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated May 18, 2026