Proto-Abazgi language
Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Abkhaz and Abaza languages.Phonology
Consonants
The consonant system is reconstructed with a four-way phonation contrast in stops and affricates, and a two-way contrast in fricatives.
Below is the table of Proto-Abazgi Alphabet :
- In some Abaza dialects the velar consonants turned to uvular consonantv.
The most noticeable changes are:
| English | Proto-Abazgi | Abkhaz | Abkhaz | Abaza |
| 1 | | | - | |
| 2 | | | - | |
| 3 | | | - | |
| 4 | | | - | |
| 5 | | | | |
| 6 | - | | - | |
| 7 | | | - | |
| 8 | | | - | |
| 9 | | | - | |
| 10 | | | - | |
| 11 | - | | - | |
| 12 | - | | - | |
| 13 | - | | - | |
| 14 | - | | - | |
| 15 | - | | - | |
| 16 | - | | - | |
| 17 | | | - | |
| 18 | | | - | |
| 19 | | | - | |
| 20 | | | - | |
| 100 | - | | - | |
| 1000 | | | - | |
