Countries
Georgia
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Nigeria
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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Yoruba 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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2817
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
e dupe
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
e kaasan
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
e kaaro
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Jowo
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
binu
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
bye
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
80,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Ede
Where They Speak
Kartli
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2020
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million28.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
géorgien
yoruba
German Name
Georgisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Yoruba people
Origin
5th Century
4 BC
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Southern
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Yorùbá
Language Position
12049
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
yor
ISO 639 2/B
geo
yor
ISO 639 3
kat
yor
ISO 639 6
kat
yor
Glottocode
nucl1302
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating