Countries
Georgia
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Armenian
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3324
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2817
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Greece
How Many People Speak
80,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kartlian
Griko
Where They Speak
Kartli
Italy
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pshavian
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2025
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.30 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ქართული ენა
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
géorgien
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Georgisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
5th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Southern
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Modern Greek
Language Position
12074
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
ell
ISO 639 2/B
geo
gre
ISO 639 3
kat
ell
ISO 639 6
kat
ells
Glottocode
nucl1302
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic