Countries
Georgia
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2830
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
80,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kartli
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Pshavi
China
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
géorgien
tibétain
German Name
Georgisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Georgians
tibetan people
Origin
5th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Southern
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
12029
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
ka
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
bod
ISO 639 2/B
geo
tib
ISO 639 3
kat
bod
ISO 639 6
kat
bod
Glottocode
nucl1302
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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