Countries
Georgia
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
21.00 million
  
36
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Not Available
  
French Name
géorgien
  
kurde
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Kurds
  
Origin
5th Century
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available