Abaza is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Russia, Georgia, Germany, and Turkey. It is primarily spoken in Russia in the Caucasus mountains, and the second largest population of speakers lives in Turkey. There is no standardized system for writing, but it can be written using the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. It is related to other Caucasian languages in that it has few vowels and many consonants, which makes it one of the hardest languages to learn. It also has no grammatical cases. Abaza is somewhat intelligible with Abkhaz, another endangered language of the same family. Although Abaza does have a stable network including newspapers, radio programs, TV programs, books, and dictionaries, the Abaza speaking population is slowly declining as younger generations switch to more prominent languages.