Countries
Georgia
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3362
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
52
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2860
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Cyrillic
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 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
амритана
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Амарахь
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
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Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
80,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Kartli
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Sadz
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Turkey
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
géorgien
abkhaze
German Name
Georgisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Abkhaz people
Origin
5th Century
c. 1650
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Southern
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Abkhaz
Language Position
12028
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
abk
ISO 639 2/B
geo
abk
ISO 639 3
kat
abk
ISO 639 6
kat
abks
Glottocode
nucl1302
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative