Countries
Georgia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3328
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2820
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
您好
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
谢谢
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
你好吗？
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
晚安
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
下午好
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
早上好
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
请
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
遗憾
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
再见
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
我爱你
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
80,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Kartli
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pshavian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million52.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
géorgien
cantonais
German Name
Georgisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Han Chinese
Origin
5th Century
17th century
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Southern
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
1201
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
ka
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
yue
ISO 639 2/B
geo
yue
ISO 639 3
kat
No data available
ISO 639 6
kat
yue
Glottocode
nucl1302
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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