Countries
South Africa
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Cabinet of Georgia
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- 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
Dutch Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1728
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Dankie
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
goeie nag
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
goeie more
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
asseblief
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
jammer
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Totsiens
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
-
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Kartlian
Where They Speak
-
Kartli
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Namibia
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
7.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
19.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.10 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.30 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afrikaans
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
afrikaans
géorgien
German Name
Afrikaans
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Georgians
Origin
17th Century
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Southern
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Modern Georgian
Language Position
23120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
af
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
kat
ISO 639 2/B
afr
geo
ISO 639 3
afr
kat
ISO 639 6
afrs
kat
Glottocode
afri1274
nucl1302
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Agglutinative, Synthetic