Countries
Georgia
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
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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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3321
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2819
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Bwakeye
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Urakoze
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Mwaramutse
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Ndagusavye
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Ndasubiza
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
N’agasaga
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
80,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Ha
Where They Speak
Kartli
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Shubi
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million8.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
géorgien
rundi
German Name
Georgisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
5th Century
1500
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Southern
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Branch
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Kirundi
Language Position
12086
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
-
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ISO 639 1
ka
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
run
ISO 639 2/B
geo
run
ISO 639 3
kat
run
ISO 639 6
kat
run
Glottocode
nucl1302
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
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Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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