Countries
Georgia
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Not Available
  
French Name
géorgien
  
chinois
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Han
  
Origin
5th Century
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating