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Georgian
Georgian

Latvian
Latvian



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Countries

Countries

Georgia
European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Latvia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Cabinet of Georgia
Latvian State Language Center

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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
  • The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.

Similar To

Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Lithuanian Language

Derived From

Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3333
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2824
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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Sveiki

Thank You

გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Paldies

How Are You?

როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Kā jums klājas?

Good Night

ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Ar labunakti

Good Evening

საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Labvakar

Good Afternoon

დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Labdien

Good Morning

დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Labrīt

Please

გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
lūdzu

Sorry

ბოდიში (bodishi)
Piedodiet!

Bye

ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Uz redzēšanos

I Love You

მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Es tevi mīlu

Excuse Me

უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Piedodiet!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Judaeo-Georgian
Livonian

Where They Speak

Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Latvia

How Many People Speak

80,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kartlian
Middle Latvian

Where They Speak

Kartli
Latvia

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.002,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Pshavian
High Latvian

Where They Speak

Pshavi
France, Latvia

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

203
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

4.30 million1.75 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.64 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

4.30 million1.75 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

4.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ქართული ენა
latviešu valoda

Alternative Names

Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Lettish

French Name

géorgien
letton

German Name

Georgisch
Lettisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[ˈlætviən]

Ethnicity

Georgians
Latvians or Letts

History

Origin

5th Century
1530

Language Family

Kartvelian Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Southern
Baltic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Georgian
Latvian

Language Position

1209
1 120
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Signed Forms

Georgian Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language

Scope

-
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ka
lv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kat
lav

ISO 639 2/B

geo
lav

ISO 639 3

kat
lav

ISO 639 6

kat
lav

Glottocode

nucl1302
latv1249

Linguasphere

No data available
54-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic

Georgian and Latvian Alphabets

Georgian and Latvian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Georgian and Latvian. In Georgian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Georgian and Latvian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Georgian and Latvian languages. The Georgian phonology consist Georgian vowels and Georgian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Georgian greetings vs Latvian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Georgian and Latvian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Georgian and Latvian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Georgian and Latvian dialects. Various dialects of Georgian and Latvian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Georgian are spoken in different Georgian Speaking Countries whereas Latvian Dialects are spoken in different Latvian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Georgian vs Latvian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Georgian dialects include: Judaeo-Georgian, Kartlian. Latvian dialects include: Livonian , Middle Latvian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Georgian and Latvian Speaking population

Georgian and Latvian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Georgian and Latvian languages can be compared. The total count of Georgian and Latvian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Georgian language is 0.64 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Georgian and Latvian on Georgian vs Latvian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Georgian and Latvian Language Codes

Georgian and Latvian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Georgian and Latvian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.