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Countries

Countries

Georgia

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Cabinet of Georgia

Interesting Facts

  • Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
  • Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.

Similar To

Not Available

Derived From

Anatolian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

28
Rank: 18 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Georgian script

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)

Thank You

გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)

How Are You?

როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)

Good Night

ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)

Good Evening

საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)

Good Afternoon

დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)

Good Morning

დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)

Please

გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)

Sorry

ბოდიში (bodishi)

Bye

ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)

I Love You

მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)

Excuse Me

უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Judaeo-Georgian

Where They Speak

Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America

How Many People Speak

80,000.00
Rank: 43 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kartlian

Where They Speak

Kartli

How Many People Speak

Not Available
700 80000000
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Dialect 3

Pshavian

Where They Speak

Pshavi

How Many People Speak

Not Available
1400 96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

20
Rank: 18 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

4.30 million
Rank: 74 (Overall)
0.13 1200
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Speaking Population

Not Available
0.11 89
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Native Speakers

4.30 million
Rank: 69 (Overall)
0.13 873
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Second Language Speakers

Not Available
0.01 400
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Native Name

ქართული ენა

Alternative Names

Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli

French Name

géorgien

German Name

Georgisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]

Ethnicity

Georgians

History

Origin

5th Century

Language Family

Kartvelian Family

Subgroup

Southern

Branch

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian

Standard Forms

Modern Georgian

Language Position

120
Rank: 68 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Not Available

Scope

Not Available

Code

ISO 639 1

ka

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kat

ISO 639 2/B

geo

ISO 639 3

kat

ISO 639 6

Not Available

Glottocode

nucl1302

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Not Available

Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Georgian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Georgian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Georgian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Georgian. Georgian phonology gives Georgian vowels and Georgian consonants. There are 5 vowels and 28 consonants in Georgian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Georgian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Georgian language is given in detail in this section.

All Georgian countries

Want to explore all Georgian countries? About Georgian language serves you with all Georgian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Georgian as official language are called as Georgian countries.

  • Countries that use Georgian as their National Language are: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Georgian as second language are: Georgian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Georgian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Georgian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Georgian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Georgian language.Learn Georgian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  • Thank you: გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  • Good Morning: დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  • Good Evening: საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  • Good Afternoon: დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)

All Georgian Language Codes

Get to know all Georgian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Georgian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.