Countries
Georgia
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2836
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Cyrillic
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)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
80,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Kartli
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2058
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Balgarski
French Name
géorgien
bulgare
German Name
Georgisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Bulgarian people
Origin
5th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Southern
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
12088
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
bul
ISO 639 2/B
geo
bul
ISO 639 3
kat
bul
ISO 639 6
kat
buls
Glottocode
nucl1302
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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