Countries
Georgia
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Nepal
  
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
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-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)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
géorgien
  
népalais
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
5th Century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative