Countries
Georgia
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Somali Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3334
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
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
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
akkam
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Maaloo
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
naa dhiisi
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Borana
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
80,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Orma
Where They Speak
Kartli
Kenya
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Wata
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Kenya
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2017
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.36 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
géorgien
galla
German Name
Georgisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Oromos
Origin
5th Century
16
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Southern
Cushitic
Branch
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
12091
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ka
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
orm
ISO 639 2/B
geo
orm
ISO 639 3
kat
orm
ISO 639 6
kat
orm
Glottocode
nucl1302
nucl1736
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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