Countries
Georgia
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3337
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2846
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
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Mhoro
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Masikati
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Mangwanani
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Ndineurombo
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
bye
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
80,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Karanga
Where They Speak
Kartli
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Pshavi
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
204
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 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
chiShona
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
géorgien
shona
German Name
Georgisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Shona people
Origin
5th Century
20th century
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Southern
Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Standard Shona
Language Position
120107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
sna
ISO 639 2/B
geo
sna
ISO 639 3
kat
sna
ISO 639 6
kat
sna
Glottocode
nucl1302
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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