Countries
Georgia
  
Norway
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Norwegian Language 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.
  
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-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)
  
takk
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
god morgen
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
ha det
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Norsk
  
French Name
géorgien
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
5th Century
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional