Countries
Georgia
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3332
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2823
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
سلام
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
متشکرم
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
صبح به خیر
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
لطفا
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
متاسف
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
80,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Kartli
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million65.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.99 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ქართული ენა
فارسی
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
géorgien
persan
German Name
Georgisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Persian people
Origin
5th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Southern
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Persian
Language Position
12023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Persian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
fas
ISO 639 2/B
geo
per
ISO 639 3
kat
pes
ISO 639 6
kat
pers
Glottocode
nucl1302
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic