Countries
Georgia
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
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Chinese Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
您好
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
谢谢
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
你好吗？
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
晚安
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
下午好
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
早上好
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
请
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
遗憾
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
再见
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
我爱你
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Kartlian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Kartli
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Pshavian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Hong Kong
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
ქართული ენა
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
géorgien
Not Available
German Name
Georgisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Georgians
Not Available
Origin
5th Century
17th century
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Southern
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Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
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Scope
Not Available
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ISO 639 1
ka
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
kat
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
geo
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ISO 639 3
kat
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
nucl1302
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
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Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Georgian and Cantonese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Georgian and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Georgian and Cantonese language. Georgian word for "Hello" is გამარჯობა (gamarjoba) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Georgian Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Georgian vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Georgian vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Georgian Alphabets and Cantonese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Georgian and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Georgian and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Georgian is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.