Countries
Georgia
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
سلام
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
متاسف
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
26
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
géorgien
  
persan
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Persian people
  
Origin
5th Century
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic