Countries
Georgia
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2821
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Hello
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Fadlan
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
sorry
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
80,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Kartli
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million8.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
géorgien
somali
German Name
Georgisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Somalis
Origin
5th Century
19th century
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Southern
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Somali
Language Position
12083
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
som
ISO 639 2/B
geo
som
ISO 639 3
kat
som
ISO 639 6
kat
som
Glottocode
nucl1302
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
-