Countries
Georgia
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
géorgien
  
allemand
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Germans
  
Origin
5th Century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic