Countries
Georgia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2821
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Cyrillic
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
80,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Kartli
Olonets
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2013
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.64 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.30 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
Русский
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Russki
French Name
géorgien
russe
German Name
Georgisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Russians
Origin
5th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Southern
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Standard Russian
Language Position
1207
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
rus
ISO 639 2/B
geo
rus
ISO 639 3
kat
rus
ISO 639 6
kat
rus
Glottocode
nucl1302
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic