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Countries

Countries
Georgia

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages

Derived From
Anatolian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
33 15

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
28 18

Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 80

Dialect 2
Kartlian

Where They Speak
Kartli

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00 49

Dialect 3
Pshavian

Where They Speak
Pshavi

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00 40

Total No. Of Dialects
20 18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
4.30 million 74

Speaking Population
0.64 % 26

Native Speakers
4.30 million 69

Second Language Speakers
4.00 million 52

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
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian

Standard Forms
Modern Georgian

Language Position
120 78

Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language

Scope
-

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
kat

Glottocode
nucl1302

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
-

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic

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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.

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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.

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