Countries
Georgia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3357
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2850
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Sawubona
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
unjani
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
bye
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
80,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kartlian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Kartli
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Pshavi
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
204
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
4.30 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.64 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
4.30 million12.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
géorgien
zoulou
German Name
Georgisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Georgians
Zulu people
Origin
5th Century
19
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Southern
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Deep Zulu
Language Position
12087
1
120
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Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ka
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kat
zul
ISO 639 2/B
geo
zul
ISO 639 3
kat
zul
ISO 639 6
kat
zul
Glottocode
nucl1302
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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