Countries
Georgia
  
India
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Govenment of Goa
  
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.
  
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Marathi
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Namaskar
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
Dev Borem Korum
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
kaso assa?
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Chike
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Maf kor
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
Adeus
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
upkar korxi
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Antruz
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Goa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
French Name
géorgien
  
konkani
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Konkani
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
kõkɳi
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Konkanis
  
Origin
5th Century
  
1209 A.D.
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Indo-European 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
  
Kokani
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
kok
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
kok
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
kok
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
goan1235
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available