1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Georgia
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Abkhazia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Adyghe language, Abaza language
1.10 Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Caucasian languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Cyrillic
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
3.2 Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
3.3 How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
3.4 Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
3.5 Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.6 Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.7 Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
3.8 Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Not Available
3.10 Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
3.11 I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Not available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Abkhazia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
80,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
4.30 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
4.30 million0.13 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ქართული ენა
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Abxazo, Abkhazian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Northwest Caucasian
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative