Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Cabinet of Georgia
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- 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.
Similar To
Somali Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2428
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
akkam
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Galatoomi
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Maaloo
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
naa dhiisi
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Nagayattii!
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Borana
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Orma
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Kenya
Kartli
How Many People Speak
66,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Wata
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Kenya
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
13,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1720
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.36 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
24.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
35.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afaan Oromo
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
galla
géorgien
German Name
Galla-Sprache
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ɔrɔmɔ]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Oromos
Georgians
Origin
16
5th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Southern
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Modern Georgian
Language Position
91120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
om
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
orm
kat
ISO 639 2/B
orm
geo
ISO 639 3
orm
kat
ISO 639 6
orm
kat
Glottocode
nucl1736
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic