Countries
Georgia
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2831
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Selam
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
i'bakwon
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
aznallehu
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
tschao
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Gondar
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Gondar
How Many People Speak
80,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Kartli
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Showa
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
205
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
géorgien
amharique
German Name
Georgisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Amharas
Origin
5th Century
13th century
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Southern
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Amharic
Language Position
12055
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
amh
ISO 639 2/B
geo
amh
ISO 639 3
kat
amh
ISO 639 6
kat
amh
Glottocode
nucl1302
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional