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Abkhaz alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet used for Abkhaz language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Abkhaz alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet used for the Abkhaz language.
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Abkhaz did not become a written language until the 19th century. Up until then, Abkhazians, especially princes, had been using Greek (up to c. 9th century), Georgian (9–19th centuries), and partially Turkish (18th century) languages.[2] The Abkhaz word for alphabet is анбан (anban), which was borrowed from Georgian ანბანი (anbani).