In prehistoric times the ancient Abkhasian Language split up into numerous dialects, representing the language of related tribes. In the first centuries of the new era a comparative singleness of the ancient Abkhazian language was established, conditioned by the unification into princedoms, and later into a single feudal state, which, undoubtedly, was conducive to the formation of the ancient Abkhazian nationality, the development of a common tribal language, oral folk poetry, the appearance of official-business speech, used during solution of intertribal, inter-feudal and. later, of stale issuer and in legal proceedings. The ancient Abkhazian language, out of the languages of related tribes, became the language of the Abkhazian peoples, to whom the written language was known. This is proved by ancient primordial words of significance as: write, read, cross out, sign, book, etc. The antiquity of the above-mentioned words is confirmed by relevant words in the Abkhazian language, these speak of the fact that the given words existed in the ancient Abkhazian long beiore it was separated from the Abazin language... ... The language of Middle Age Abkhazians — «Apsuaa». «Apsutsov», «Apsarov» — correspond with the language of modern Abkhasians — Apsuaa...

«... The Abkhazian language linguistically is on one of the highest rungs of human speech and, among languages akin to it, occupies that same rung as English does among European languages», wrote Academician N. Y. Marr. «... The influence of the Abkhazian language on that of the Georgian was great and some limes not only the lexical but the actual cultural and historical significance were highly instructive: the Abkhazians conveyed their terms lo their neighbours...»

«... In some of the Abkhazians who now interest us we have grounds, like in a precious shard of a whole that has nol come down to us, for seeing a part of antiquity. The pre-Asialic cultural world is. therefore, a rare live spring. And that is why it is quite natural that the Abkhazian language begins to assisl in the analysis of the cuneiform monuments not only of this world but also of Armenia. Midia and tlama» (N. Y. Marr)!