Countries
Georgia
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2824
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Ħello
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Grazzi
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Kif int?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Skużani!
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Ċaw
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Qormi
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Malta
How Many People Speak
80,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kartlian
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Kartli
Malta
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pshavian
Not Present
Where They Speak
Pshavi
-
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
202
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.64 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.30 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ქართული ენა
Malti
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Malti
French Name
géorgien
maltais
German Name
Georgisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Maltese
Origin
5th Century
c. 1470
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Southern
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Maltese
Language Position
12025
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
geo
mlt
ISO 639 3
kat
mlt
ISO 639 6
kat
mlt
Glottocode
nucl1302
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic