Abkhaz alphabet

[2] The Abkhaz word for alphabet is анбан (anban), which was borrowed from Georgian ანბანი (anbani).

[3][4] In 1909, the alphabet was again expanded to 55 letters by Andria Tchotchua to adjust to the extensive consonantal inventory of Abkhaz.

In 1996, the most recent reform of the alphabet was implemented: while labialization had hitherto been marked with two additional letters, ә and у (у was used in the digraphs гу, ҕу, ку, қу, ҟу, and ху, which were not considered separate letters), since then only ә was retained in this function.

The modern Abkhaz orthography gives preference to the letters Г К П Т Х Ч with descender (Ӷ Қ Ԥ Ҭ Ҳ Ҷ).

[6] Besides the digraphs listed in the alphabet, the letter ь occurs in ль /lʲ/, which is used in some loanwords.

The original 1862 script by Uslar
1888 script modified by Mikhail Romualdovich Zavadsky [ ru ]
The 1892 script by Gulia and Machiavariani.
The expanded 1909 alphabet by Andria Chochua.
1925 version of the script by Chochua.
The Abkhaz Latin alphabet used 1926–1928 designed by Nicholas Marr [ 1 ]
The Abkhaz Latin alphabet used 1928–1938 with corresponding Cyrillic and IPA transcriptions.
1930 Abkhaz Latin alphabet with corresponding Cyrillic letters.
Abkhaz alphabet which was based on Georgian script and used from 1938 to 1953.
The current Abkhaz alphabet (This includes old ones such as Ҕ which was replaced with Ӷ)