The Abaza language (Абаза Бызшва/Abaza Byzšwa) is a language of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian autonomous republic of Karachay-Cherkessia.
The Abaza family is a large family in Egypt and surrounding nations with several famous members.
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Abaza is a North West Caucasian language spoken by about 45,000 people in the Russian autonomous republics of Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygea, and also in Germany, Turkey and the USA.
Between 1932 and 1938 Abaza was written with the Latin alphabet.
In the 18th--19th centuries the Abaza territory became an knot of discord in the imperial policies of Russia and Turkey.
In 1938 the central government ordered that the Abaza literary language adopt the Cyrillic alphabet and Russian be made the official language of instruction (the Abaza language and literature were retained as subjects in the curriculum).
The identity and unity of the Abaza people may soon be endangered by two tendencies that have emerged during the past two decades, notably the growing number of mixed marriages and urbanization.
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