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
-
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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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!
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
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pshavian
High Latvian
Where They Speak
Pshavi
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.64 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.30 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
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
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
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
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic