Countries
South Africa
Georgia
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
Not Available
Derived From
Dutch Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Kartli
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Namibia
Pshavi
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Not Available
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Modern Georgian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
Glottocode
afri1274
nucl1302
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Afrikaans and Georgian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Afrikaans and Georgian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Georgian language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Georgian word for "Thank You" is გმადლობთ (gmadlobt). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Georgian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Georgian Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Georgian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Georgian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Afrikaans and Georgian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Georgian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Georgian time required is 44 weeks.