Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
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
Moi
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
haluta
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
finnois
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Georgians
  
Origin
1543
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Southern
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Modern Georgian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
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, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic