Countries
Georgia
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Nigeria
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
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3336
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2828
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
kedụ
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
dalụ
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Biko
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Ndo
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Kachifo
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Enuani
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
80,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Kartli
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Not present
Where They Speak
Pshavi
-
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2020
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.30 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
igbo
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Ibo
French Name
géorgien
igbo
German Name
Georgisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Igbo people
Origin
5th Century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Southern
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Standard Igbo
Language Position
12057
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
geo
ibo
ISO 639 3
kat
ibo
ISO 639 6
kat
ibo
Glottocode
nucl1302
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative