Countries
Georgia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
289
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
hallo
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Danke
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
guten Tag
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
guten Morgen
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
bitte
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Verzeihung
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Tschüs
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
80,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Kartli
Germany
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Texas German
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Texas
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2028
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million229.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %1.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million101.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
géorgien
allemand
German Name
Georgisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Germans
Origin
5th Century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Southern
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
1209
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
deu
ISO 639 2/B
geo
ger
ISO 639 3
kat
deu
ISO 639 6
kat
deus
Glottocode
nucl1302
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic