Countries
Georgia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2843
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
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Molo
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Unjani
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Molo
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Ndicela
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
South Africa
How Many People Speak
80,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Thembu
Where They Speak
Kartli
South Africa
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Pshavi
South Africa
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
209
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
géorgien
xhosa
German Name
Georgisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Georgians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
5th Century
16th Century
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Southern
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
isiXhosa
Language Position
12021
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
xho
ISO 639 2/B
geo
xho
ISO 639 3
kat
xho
ISO 639 6
kat
xho
Glottocode
nucl1302
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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