Countries
Georgia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2836
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
80,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Kartli
-
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Pshavi
-
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
201
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
géorgien
singhalais
German Name
Georgisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Sinhalese people
Origin
5th Century
3
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Southern
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
12070
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
sin
ISO 639 2/B
geo
sin
ISO 639 3
kat
sin
ISO 639 6
kat
sin
Glottocode
nucl1302
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional