Countries
Georgia
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2829
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Silaw
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Sipas
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Bayanit bash
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Bê zehmet
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bibûre
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
80,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Kartli
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
géorgien
kurde
German Name
Georgisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Kurds
Origin
5th Century
16th century CE
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Southern
Indo-Iranian
Branch
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Kurdish
Language Position
12014
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ka
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
kur
ISO 639 2/B
geo
kur
ISO 639 3
kat
kur
ISO 639 6
kat
kur
Glottocode
nucl1302
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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