Countries
Georgia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
Not Available
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Kartlian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Kartli
Olonets
Dialect 3
Pshavian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1302
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Georgian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Georgian and Russian language. Georgian word for "Hello" is გამარჯობა (gamarjoba) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Georgian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Georgian vs Russian Difficulty
The Georgian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Georgian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Georgian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Georgian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.