Countries
Georgia
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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
Zambia
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
-
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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Zulu language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3331
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2818
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks32 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Moni
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Zikomo
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Masana abwino
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
M'mawa wabwino
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Chonde
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
pepani
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
anatsanzikana
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Pepani
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Kasungu
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
80,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kartlian
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Kartli
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pshavian
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
205
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million12.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.64 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.30 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ქართული ენა
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
géorgien
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Georgisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Chewa people
Origin
5th Century
15th Century
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Southern
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Chewa
Language Position
12027
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
nya
ISO 639 2/B
geo
nya
ISO 639 3
kat
nya
ISO 639 6
kat
nya
Glottocode
nucl1302
nyan1308
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
-