Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
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
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- 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
Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
Palun
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Head aega
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
estonien
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Georgians
  
Origin
13th century
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Southern
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Modern Georgian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic