Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
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
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Kartli
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
arabe
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Georgians
  
Origin
512 CE
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Southern
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic